Bookmoth

On The Red Badge of Courage

9 days ago

crane's prose has this strange dreamy quality — henry's fear feels almost hallucinatory, not quite real

On Circe

13 days ago

i keep forgetting this is ancient greece because the interiority feels so modern and immediate, and somehow that doesn't bother me at all

On The Red Badge of Courage

18 days ago

henry desperately wanting a wound to prove something to himself is such a painfully human impulse

On The Red Badge of Courage

1 months ago

crane's prose has this strange dreamy quality — henry's fear feels almost hallucinatory, not quite real

On Circe

1 months ago

the chapters on her island exile have this strange dual feeling — imprisonment and relief at once, which i think is exactly the point

On The Name of the Rose

1 months ago

the ending left me sitting quietly for a while. all that knowledge, all those books. the question of whether truth is worth its cost lingers uncomfortably

★★★☆☆

On Stoner

1 months ago

the departmental politics with lomax are so pettily vicious, which somehow makes them more unsettling than grand villainy would be