This is such a strange book but one I couldn’t put down. Haven’t seen a lot of people reading it but definitely worth a read.
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I just finished 1984 by George Orwell, amazing book! I know it’s well know but I’ve never gotten around to reading it until I had some free time these past few weeks. Would recommend if you’re into political fiction. As of right now I’m reading I who have never know men by Jaqueline Harpman and so far its really good! A bit sad but we shall see.
Jan 24, 2025
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I have about 90 pages left and it’s a very long book but trust me once you start reading you’ll get through it quickly because it’s just so good
It’s about a teacher in 2011 who is told to go through a portal to the fifties and live there in order to prevent jfk’s assassination and it is So incredibly interesting
It’s Stephen king but it’s not horror so it’s just his super fun casual style but with such a cool historical fictiony premise and it is so so good
May 2, 2024
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I'm ridiculously behind and everyone has probably already read it. But I finished Gone Girl a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. The suspense, dual unreliable narrators, and strange intimacy you sense between them...phenomenal. You start by thinking Nick (the husband) doesn't know his wife at all and that he has just projected all his self-loathing onto her. Then you realize he wasn't entirely wrong and you didn't know Amy either. You don't know them but you do. They don't know each other but they do they do they do. The titular theme that you can never really know someone (yet you also can) summarized in these lines from the first page:
What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have ... What have we done to each other? What will we do?
*funny note 1: this was my 3rd attempt at reading Gone Girl over the past 4 years. every time i tried to read it i could never get to Amy's part because i just haaaaatedddd Nick so much i couldn't bear to be in his head any longer.
*funny note 2: my boyfriend was extra cautious around me and even a little anxious while i was reading LMAO
*sidenote: the movie was fine. i thought the pacing was a little fast, but understandable. what i didn't like was you didn't see any of Nick's internal monologue, so he just seems like a regular bum kind of a dick. when really he's like a huge piece of shit.
Jan 26, 2024
