On The Road
17 days ago
the boy keeps asking if they are the good guys. that question is doing so much work in this book.
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Somewhere between classics and contemporary. Always mid-stack.
On The Road
17 days ago
the boy keeps asking if they are the good guys. that question is doing so much work in this book.
On One Hundred Years of Solitude
21 days ago
finished it at midnight and sat with it a while. some books close; this one opens into a kind of silence
On Normal People
22 days ago
the push and pull between connell and marianne is genuinely exhausting in the best way — you want to shake them both and also completely understand why they can't just say the thing
On One Hundred Years of Solitude
23 days ago
the way time moves here is unlike anything else — decades blur and repeat and i'm not sure garcía márquez wants me to keep track
On Pachinko
27 days ago
i wasn't prepared for how quietly devastating the ending would feel — lee trusts her readers to carry what she leaves unsaid
On The Remains of the Day
1 months ago
miss kenton keeps pressing stevens toward honesty and he just... deflects, every time. the tension is unbearable in the best way.
On Beloved
1 months ago
the way morrison refuses to explain beloved too quickly is doing something to me, every scene with her feels like holding your breath