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houk is 20% done with 12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness
"and the thing about autumn is that it has this inbuilt calm about it . . . nature begins its gentle decline into winter with a happy sigh."

with a happy sigh!!!!! oh MAN i can't wait for autumn. for the cooler weather and the cozy melancholy. what a joy to explore nature through new eyes, to "feel very warm inside."
Jul 02, 2023 07:55PM Add a comment
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houk is 29% done with Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008
movin slowly to try n savor it. such an insanely cool experience to read about a movement that shaped my life and personality so heavily :']
Jul 02, 2023 03:14PM Add a comment
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

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houk is 76% done with Cursed Bread
“and what a grief it was to realize this even the moment that the grief was being assuaged, a need imagined and satisfied simultaneously.”

gorgeous!
Jun 28, 2023 01:45PM Add a comment
Cursed Bread

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houk is 64% done with Cursed Bread
bruh motivating myself for this one is getting a little tough ~_~
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houk is 24% done with Cursed Bread
"that's what you do with a daughter, especially a bad one, and they're all bad ones, stricken with their own loveliness, stricken with their own doom."

hey!!!!! what the fuck is wrong with you sophie mackintosh why would you write that.
Jun 20, 2023 09:24PM Add a comment
Cursed Bread

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houk is on page 306 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
i will finish tomorrow !!!! it's still a bit difficult at times bc of a lot of The God Stuff, but unamuno's work is imbued with a refreshing sense of hope i don't see often, especially in comparison to the religious texts i've interacted with. i'm excited to read through the rest of it, although i'll be a bit sad to see it go. it kinda feels like this work will stretch longer than the few tens of pages i have left.
Jun 19, 2023 07:15PM Add a comment
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houk is on page 285 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
sorry if i'm creating an update too early with too little to say but...the "it is not faith which creates martyrs but rather martyrs who create faith" argument is hitting so close to home rn (285) !!!!!
Jun 17, 2023 08:48PM Add a comment
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houk is 82% done with Book Lovers
delightful, every time :’]
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Book Lovers

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houk is 41% done with Book Lovers
charlie lastra the man you are today………. you will always be famous
Jun 15, 2023 11:59PM Add a comment
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houk is on page 249 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
hm. i have begun to face some expected emotional difficulties with the text, yet find myself simultaneously strangely comforted. i am at once discouraged and consoled by much of what unamuno speaks of in regards to god and religiosity. forced to face a profound sense of melancholy and loss, but also a relatively foreign swell of hope. what a contradiction.
Jun 14, 2023 04:25PM Add a comment
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houk
houk is on page 164 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
no like y’all do not understand how am i supposed to cope with “if i possessed consciousness of all that happens in my bodily organism, i should feel the universe happening within myself . . .”

what. i am REELING that’s so beautiful
Jun 10, 2023 09:17PM Add a comment
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houk is on page 146 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
def want to return to this past chapter but am thoroughly engaged thus far !! that's all thanks (there is much more that i am currently parsing thru for The Review)
Jun 05, 2023 10:14PM Add a comment
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

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houk is on page 118 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
hopefully gonna return later tn !! i am literally contemplating so hard rn
Jun 05, 2023 12:37PM Add a comment
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houk is on page 75 of 528 of The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
much to think about…….. (slash positive)
Jun 01, 2023 06:51PM Add a comment
The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

houk
houk is on page 331 of 559 of The Secret History
want to elaborate. can't.
May 26, 2023 08:16PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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houk is on page 283 of 559 of The Secret History
didn't get as far as i wanted today !! def slacked but it's ok,,, trying to make it last as long as possible (while simultaneously making sufficient progress)
May 25, 2023 08:25PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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houk is on page 204 of 559 of The Secret History
love that even without the audiobook, i can only hear the novel in tartt's voice
May 24, 2023 11:13PM Add a comment
The Secret History

houk
houk is on page 177 of 559 of The Secret History
it's so hard to make it last :( i keep wanting to take more time with it but i just can't stop reading ~_~
May 23, 2023 12:10PM Add a comment
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houk is on page 89 of 559 of The Secret History
love, as always.
"live forever" !!!
May 21, 2023 04:13PM Add a comment
The Secret History

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houk is starting The Secret History
oops i'm following the urge to re-read i can't help it
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houk is 78% done with This Is How You Lose the Time War
shut up this is not what i think it is shut up don’t you dare. don’t you DARE DO NOT DO THIS.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War

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houk is 62% done with This Is How You Lose the Time War
“do you laugh, sea foam?”
OH I WANT TO BE LAID TO REST.
May 18, 2023 05:23PM Add a comment
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houk is 44% done with This Is How You Lose the Time War
no u don't get it bc "her pen had a heart inside," !!!!! "and the nib was a wound in a vein" !!!!! "she stained the page with herself" !!!!! HELLO.
May 18, 2023 02:53PM Add a comment
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houk is on page 53 of 56 of Howl and Other Poems
allen. this poem is the gentle thrum of a pulse. a steady heartbeat of hope. i need to live with this poem settled between my ribs for a while and let it seep into the marrow. is he kidding!!!!

"for the burden of life / is love, / but we carry the weight / wearily, / and so must rest / in the arms of love / at last, / must rest in the arms / of love."

"the final wish is love."
THE FINAL WISH IS LOVE!!!!
May 12, 2023 09:41AM Add a comment
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houk is on page 20 of 56 of Howl and Other Poems
god i can already tell i’m gonna need a WHILE to reread and understand ginsberg. he’s brilliant.
May 10, 2023 05:32PM Add a comment
Howl and Other Poems

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