Cassie

On The Secret History

1 months ago

the ending feels like waking up cold in a place you don't recognize — tartt earns that hollowness completely

★★★★☆

On The Poetics of Space

1 months ago

the phenomenology here is surprisingly accessible. he writes about drawers and chests as if they hold not objects but the very idea of secrecy

On Gilead

1 months ago

iowan small-town life rendered with such specificity and dignity, nothing glamorous, everything sacred

On A Little Life

1 months ago

willem is so quietly good that reading about him feels like a small relief in the middle of everything else

On The Name of the Rose

2 months ago

william's final admission about his own reasoning — that he was right and wrong in the worst possible way — is one of the most honest moments i've read

★★★★☆

On Norwegian Wood

2 months ago

the sanatorium in the mountains feels almost like another world, ami hostel with its careful routines and reiko playing guitar in the evenings

On The Bell Jar

2 months ago

the bell jar as a metaphor hasn't even been named yet and i already feel it pressing down, that sense of air running out in a perfectly sealed space

On The Road

2 months ago

that ending undid me. mccarthy earns every word of it after all that relentless gray.

★★★★☆