Cassie

On The Secret History

5 days 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

7 days 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

8 days ago

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

On A Little Life

13 days 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

18 days 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

23 days 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

28 days 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

1 months ago

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

★★★★☆