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genuinely in one of the biggest reading slumps of my life i tried like 6 books and none of them worked now i'm back to reading this even though it's meh not a big fan of the 3 worlds my mind needs something i know not something confusing and foreign

this book is SO american

rereading for the third time as an adult now - this time i’m horrified by Amir - no one who watches someone get raped, pretend it didn’t happen, and then go on to betray them and drive them out of their home, should go unpunished - the love Hassan retains for Amir in this situation now feels kind of naive - real goodness is not naivety, it’s love in the face of horror, which takes more than everything in you

absolutely hooked and reading so fast my eyes hurt

i feel like min jin lee has a soft spot for patriarchal men even though she doesn’t approve - they’re like the type of flawed character she sympathizes with - in pachinko as well - and they happen to be the only type of flawed character i can’t stand - i’m only on page 96 and i’ve thought “that’s disgusting” too many times

for some reason i imagine Ivan as a very attractive man HAHAHA

even more powerful the second time around - i'm so struck... by the power and compulsion of love, by the true call of love which bears and perseveres through proximity and time (instead of love being a one-time grand, noble gesture performed in big moments), and by the connection between love and the immortality of the soul

i love u George Orwell you write the best essays and ik this is not a love story but you are bad at writing love stories or maybe i just don't like this story - i feel like this book was decent until the Julia plot started

i’m so lame i’m still only on page 57 but literally just went like oh. my. gosh. this description is freaking… idk which word to use but i was shook - i’ve never come across someone who describes complex inner experiences as well as she does

sentences of the day - “I leap like one of those flames that run between the cracks of the earth…When I read, a purple rim runs around the black edge of the textbook.”

on a day where i worked for 15 hrs straight i was like i have to read a few pages to keep my sanity cuz right now i’m not developing as a whole person

read the first chapter and this is doing exactly what i needed it to do for me 😭

vis and aequa are gonna be a thing aren't they um why can't my own life plot be so simple - JUST WATCH ME BE WRONG THO HAHAHA

omg this kid has to deal with the hierarchy and now anguis too holding his fate in the palm of their hands?! i’m so ready for an underdog story it’s giving vis against the world vibes

i’m loving it!! was drawn into the plot from the very start and also thanks for making me laugh out loud

ok this book is literally INSANE - i'm just amazed, WOW - just read a section where God laid something on his heart and he prayed for it EVERY DAY and most days more than once for almost 12 YEARS before it came to pass

i’ve missed the harry potter world - the illustrated edition is magical! ✨

Cathy is TERRIFYING, after what she did in chapter 8 i feel like i’m reading a horror story

was looking for books with beautiful writing, and whatever my opinion of the actual “plot” will be, the writing is just BEAUTIFUL