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Yeah now everyone is dead 😐😭😭

I need a break because I know the Sabra and Shatila massacre is coming and I can't see more characters being killed or wounded

Reading this is heavy on the soul wallah

So impacted by this book and Susan Abulhawa I woke up imagining what my grandparents would have lived if a Nakbah had occured in Morocco in 1948

I am SO falling in love with this book, it's everything I've ever wanted a YA to be, I am taking notes for real
The pacing, the plot, the characters, the dividing up into parts, everything is chef's kiss

I thought I read this book before but actually I didn't I only read the book before this one (it was lying around at my grandma's) 😭😭 that's why I didn't remember anything

Me and french books designed for teenagers in the 60s and 50s <333
This is going everywhere idk what to expect anymore, there is main characters from Britanny with cliché breton names ruling over Asia as Maharadjahs ?? Everything has stereotypical Breton names as well ?? It's imitating tales like Cinderella but adding a sprinkle of Rapunzel and everything is set in the 50s with characters fleeing the Bolsheviks

Will DNF for now. There is not enough distance between me and my manuscript for me to be able to go much further than the first draft in terms of analysis and rewriting. I've thought critically about this book too much, I literally can't anymore.

Its interesting but I am reading on my phone so it's kinda slow :/
Love learning more about the Algerian Revolution and the FLN.

It's completing the overview I had from reading What the day owes the night and Bleu, Blanc, Vert and Élise ou la vraie vie.

The French stayed in Algeria for a fucking 130 years though. That's so long. Tahia Dzair. Even tho they have too much nif.

Slowly tackling the giant

My typa shit

Partie 1 :
L'Algérie de Papa
« Il en résulta un bouleversement total auquel l'ordre ancien ne put survivre qu'émietté, exténué et de manière anachronique. »
Abdelmalek Sayad, La double absence.
« L'Algérie de Papa est morte. »
Charles de Gaulle

I read some of it to my mom to make it more bearable since it's about her mom's generation.

Je ne comprends pas les gens qui jurent par Annie Ernaux. J'en peu déjà plus. Je ne pense pas lire une autre de ses oeuvres.

It's SO long arghh
Everyone is fawning over Annie Ernaux these last couple of years but honestly? Yh it's pretty okay, not so wonderful as it's made out to be. It's french "Beyrouth-sur-seine" but taking the pill and on antidepressants.

Too sad and unmotivated to pretend I am reading something intellectual. It's going to be a 60s girly comfort read.

Incredibly boring but incredibly interesting at the same time. I didn't sign up for a lecture on early Jewish sects when I picked up the book from the Judaism section of my uni library. I just wanted to know what happened to Muhammed the wolf and the story of the scrolls he discovered. There is insane lore for Christian people here though. Most of Christian rites are derived from pagan origins thru the Essene Order

"qu’est-ce que le mariage ? Un con promis"

1. Reading this book on my phone feels like a sacrilège, it really deserves paper but my local library is closed and restocking
2. Reads like a genuine fever dream
3. Why does she feel the need to relate everything to sex ?

It unfortunately keeps going on and on about this stupid senile man, but now his "wife" is to be deported and we know he suffers from erectile dysfunction. And yeah, he is also sad.

How do I say this ? The first paragraph really intrigued me. But the whole, my dad is trying to marry this destitute Ukrainian divorcee 48 years his junior is getting a bit repetitive. It feels like having a veryyy long conversation with a senile man in the care home Valentina works at. And the animosity between Nadezhda and Vera is also very clear from the funeral chapter. No need to bang on it every few paragraphs.

It's really giving hospital placement. I think hospital based literature is just a banned genre for me atp

This reads like twilight fanfiction with an 'Is she hallucinating?' twist