On The Bell Jar
21 days ago
the way class and expectation hover over everything esther does, all that pressure to be grateful, to be bright, to perform normalcy she doesn't feel
Zoey Davis
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Night reader. The lamp stays on past midnight more often than not.
Recent Notes
On The Buried Giant
25 days ago
axl and beatrice as a couple feel more real to me now than most characters in straightforwardly realistic novels. something about all that tenderness under uncertainty
On The Road
26 days ago
the prose has no quotation marks, no chapters, just this relentless forward movement. it mirrors exactly what the man and boy are doing.
On Normal People
1 months ago
the whole book is about being known by another person and how terrifying and necessary that is, and by the end you feel the full weight of that
On Pachinko
1 months ago
sunja's decision on the beach feels like the whole novel hinging on a single quiet moment — lee doesn't dramatize it, which makes it hit harder
On The Remains of the Day
1 months ago
the way ishiguro writes around things — what stevens won't say is somehow louder than what he does say.