On The Name of the Rose
1 months ago
the monastery feels genuinely cold and isolated. eco makes you feel the stone, the frost, the candlelight. you forget you're reading historical fiction
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I read for the sentences, not the stories. Prose first, always.
Recent Notes
On Kafka on the Shore
1 months ago
nakata's journey felt like the humble heart of the whole novel, and i'll miss his gentle, roundabout way of speaking
On The Secret History
2 months ago
tartt's prose is so dense and autumnal, it feels like the whole novel smells like fallen leaves and old library books
On Never Let Me Go
3 months ago
the way the students talk about the outside world, with this careful distance, keeps making me stop and reread sentences