This is the first book that got me back into reading a few months ago
It’s pretty short (I was able to read it in like two sittings) and it is so so good and if you haven’t seen the movie it is fun to know you have that to watch after finishing it
Mar 7, 2024
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“Oh, that book.” Yes.
I feel like It is thought of more often as a concept of a book/story or dismissed with a “Yeah, yeah” rather than considered an actual thing you can sit down and read. Not that it is generally despised (other than *that* scene, and yes, I completely agree), but I feel as if so few people care enough to try reading it. And with its massively popular adaptation into the 2017/2019 films, the way It as a story is viewed by the public has completely changed, and today’s tweens probably don’t even know who the director of the films is, let alone Stephen King.
Last summer, I read this book. I started it at the beach at home, but on that fateful day, the waves crashed onto my family’s belongings, taking with them a lunchbox of fruits and one flip-flop of mine (RIP). The next day, we left for a five-day trip, so I was stuck with a very old, very waterlogged, engorged, warped copy of the book. On the very long car rides over the next days, I knocked out over half of It, and spent scorching days by the pool doing the same. On the way home, I began to wrap it up.
When I got back, a hardcover was waiting in the mail for me. And with the last moments of my carefree summer days, I sat in the sunset with my brand new copy of an old story, living vicariously through 7 kids experiencing their last summer together. The red light of the fading yet radiant sunset shone onto my face, and the darkness settled in as I turned the last page.
I have never felt so many things at once. With me, I carried a palpable yet arguably unfounded sense of nostalgia endlessly afterward, and I felt as if I had lived through multiple childhoods and adulthoods in just one summer. I felt devastated and content, hopeless and happy. There is no one emotion I could tie to experiencing 1153 pages of It. It’s just It. It amazes me that on my shelf is an entire world, embossed with the proud “FROM THE LIBRARY OF,” expectant, waiting to be reopened, re-experienced, relived.
This summer will forever be engrained in my memory, and although I say this as a young person, the summer I spent in Sequoia Tree Park amidst gargantuan trees and rolling mountainscapes is the summer I grew up with seven Losers, just trying to get by and go forth with their lives.
Jan 28, 2025
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Book
I Know This Much Is True
very long read, complex story. my favorite book. before i even finished reading it i knew i’d decide to read again one day. without spoiling i’ll say it involves twin brothers and absolutely expanded my perspective of love…was made into a limited series as well, which is fun
Films
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
The Half of It (2020) this is such a wonderful movie and explores various forms of love. quite beautiful
Jul 1, 2024
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recently reread this book it is so good!!! after watching the movie (bad) it reminded me how good the book was and it was even better than i remembered i just love the vibes it is such perfect fun escapism romance
Jan 22, 2024
Top Recs from @grahamheydorn
Peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, etc.
It’s mind blowing that something so nice can be naturally occurring
Just beautiful fruits (look at these plums) and just so delicious even when they’re not technically in season
I could (and do) eat five peaches a day
Also peach cobbler! Haven’t heard of it but need to try plum cobbler I feel like that’d be crazy
Mar 20, 2024
I got a humidifier at target cause it’s getting dry and that’s something I would typically overlook but for some reason I remembered the spongebob humidifier my parents used to always put in my room and I thought about how many things just for like comfort or health that I stopped doing that were just like everyday things my parents did when I was a kid
Dec 3, 2024
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for the most part every movie I see, book I read, meal I eat, album I listen to, place I travel to is the greatest thing I’ve ever experienced
(Maybe it just means I’m easy to please but I don’t mind because it leads to many enjoyable experiences!)
Apr 12, 2024