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[23] "People always think real estate agents just want to sell, sell, sell, but there’s something… I don’t quite know how to say it…”
“There’s something romantic about the thought of all the apartments that aren’t for sale.”
[24] it's not everyday that i get amazed due to brilliant writing especially in contemporary novels, but damn Backman did that.

i LEGIT THOUGHT I HAD COVID BC OF THE FEVER but i'm alive y'all i—

[21] "He said that even if he knew that the world was going to hell tomorrow, he’d plant an apple tree today." okay Martin Luther reference, i see u
[22] this book reminded me why I do my best to be patient and not quickly DNF books (not that this book or DNFing is bad) because things make much more sense if you get to know the full story. well, unless the book is despicable enough HAHAHA.

[19] "The hardest thing about death is the grammar, the tense, the fact that she won’t be angry when she sees that he’s bought a new sofa without consulting her first. She won’t be anything. She isn’t on her way home. She was."
[20] one moment i was crying bc of so much laughter but now, this became so heartwarming i just—

[16] "[Y]ou end up marrying the one you don’t understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying."
[17] "'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Maybe for the person doing it but not for the one who was left behind."
[18] "That’s the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people’s."

[14] “One of the most human things about anxiety is that we try to cure chaos with chaos. Someone who has got themselves into a catastrophic situation rarely retreats from it, we’re far more inclined to carry on even faster." fuck this hit so hard :'(
[15] "[T]he people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all."

12] "When you’re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realize that’s the worst part of it."
[13] JACK: You were in the closet? How long for? I mean, how long before you came out of the closet?
JULES: What did you just say?
JACK: I mean, well, no, that’s not what I mean.
ME: Uhm, I don't think I ever was... (i'M DYING THIS IS SO HILARIOUS)

[9] what the fuck is happening? HAHAHA idek where that came from istg.
[10] “You love each other until you can’t live without each other. And even if you stop loving each other for a little while, you can’t… you can’t live without each other.”
[11] “You don’t fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot.” pREACH MA'AM HAHAHA

[7] "The problem is that everything is relative, happiness is based on expectations, and we have the Internet now. A whole world constantly asking us: ‘But is your life as perfect as this? Well? How about now? If it isn’t, change it!’"
[8] "'Love one another until death do us part.' Isn’t that what we promised each other? Or am I remembering wrong? 'Or at least until one of us gets bored.' Maybe that was it?" HAHAHAH

[5] "Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works." *sad young adult noises*
[6] at first i was confused because how can something written so humorously give you the feels? but now, i can see how, and that imho is what makes Backman so special.

[3] “Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you’re always judged by your worst moments. Parents are defined by their mistakes.” damn, i feel so guilty being a spoiled kid :(
[4] “‘Give me 6,500 kronor.’ Who the hell would rob a BANK for six and a half thousand? If all you want is six thousand five hundred exactly, there must be some very special reason, mustn’t there?” i'M DECEASED but oh wow.

[1] i really felt it when Backman said, "This book is dedicated to the voices in my head, the most remarkable of my friends." this is from the DEDICATION page and i already have the feels. yes friends, the dedication page!
[2] "In truth, we know as much about sex as we do about USB leads, and it always takes us four tries to get those little buggers in. (Wrong way round, wrong way round ... there! In!)" bro i—

so i heard that Backman is an expert on making people snivel feel things. and how can i reject this proposition when this book's title is literally me?

i'm actually kinda worried that this may hit too close to home, but my mind wouldn't stop bothering me to pick this up and finally have the courage to experience Backman's brilliance firsthand.

will Ariana's No Tears Left To Cry be my next theme song?

THAT ENDING THOUGH! PURE GOTHIC REALNESS. hello darkness, my old friend lol.

so i am planning to do some changes on how i write my reviews for inasmuch as i want to write extensive ones, university also requires me to write papers almost everyday (and my poor brain feels overwhelmed due to the daunting number of write-ups ack).

let's see how i can make it work in the pursuit of brevity and substance!

[14] Linton Heathcliff is a frail, delicate, moody, and whiny bitch. Linton is me, I am Linton. Goddamn.
[15] ‘No books!’ I exclaimed. ‘How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire – Though provided with a large library, I’m frequently very dull at the Grange – take my books away, and I should be desperate!’ the way that i can relate to a spiritual level lmao

[13] ‘Loving!’ cried I, as scornfully as I could utter the word. ‘Loving! Did anybody ever hear the like! I might just as well talk of loving the miller who comes once a year to buy our corn. Pretty loving, indeed, and both times together you have seen Linton hardly four hours, in your life!’

THE WAY THAT I FELT ATTACKED READING THIS I— Brontë seems to have a problem with me HAHAHAHA

[10] Heathcliff is the king of y'all who abuse your partners or lead people on then dump them when necessary aCK
[11] me: okay so i'm finally getting the hang of the characters
Brontë: i'mma name Catherine's daughter Catherine and end this man's career
[12] miss Brontë, how can you even make characters this aBHORRENT? i am so confusion HAHAHA.

[8] totally unrelated yet also kinda, but i'mma Heathcliff the Grammys real bad with the snub they did for The Weeknd. revenge will be served at the Super Bowl!!!
[9] "He’s tolerably well, I think, though his studies occupy him rather more than they ought; he is continually among his books, since he has no other society." wHY THE HELL IS BRONTË DESCRIBING ME HAHAH

praise be, i'm halfway through lmao

[6] i feel like this book will be the validation that my most-beloved trope is indeed the revenge trope HAHAHA
[7] ‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’ if people are this poetic nowadays then maybe i'd still believe that love exists

university pls cooperate bc i want me some time to read this book huhuhu :'(

[3] me: i want a good, challenging novel for brain exercise
Wuthering Heights: *exists*
me: . . .
my brain: . . .
[4] ‘They are not mine,’ said the amiable hostess more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. my sarcastic humor can never i—
[5] this book really slapped me in the face with Gothic realness that i missed reading since The Count of Monte Cristo (and i'm totally not complaining)

[1] you know you're reading a 19th century novel when morrow is a word frequently used, as in to-morrow. this is the joy that classics bring me as a nerdy linguist lol
[2] oh shit, two chapters in and i'm already fucking confused. this book has the characters' lineage really messed up and my poor little brain can't process it all at once aCK HUHUHU

i need a break lol my brain hurts HAHAHA

hi, everyone. i'm still alive!!! HAHAHA and i feel like i forgot how to read books already

so i was able to do the research work i was procrastinating on for about a week now wHICH MEANS I CAN NOW READ ANOTHER BOOK WITHOUT GUILT!!! *cries happy tears*

lol another classic here because i love me some dusty old iconic stories

will this make me change the books on my bio again? let's see!!!

"We may call Eurydice forth from the world of the dead, but we cannot make her answer; and when we turn to look at her we glimpse her only for a moment, before she slips from our grasp and flees."

so this is what literary blue balls feel like huh. MA'AM ATWOOD PLEASE EGGSPLAIN!!!

REVIEW TO COME for this feminist masterpiece!!! (istg i should do my review backlogs first before i open another book i—)

[14] 'I get paid, you get laid, I rhyme in my head.' some people complain about Offred being a baffling narrator but i'm just here dying from laughter because of her dark humor and sarcasm
[15] hUHHH? wait!!! i'm cONFUSION!!!
[16] only two chapters left and this even became more mysterious and confusing. for the love of god, the end is a big cliffhanger, isn't it???

[11] "What’s dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are beyond reproach."
[12] i think i may have to edit my favorite books on my bio again bc hot damn
[13] it's been a while since a book gave me goosebumps chapter after chapter after chapter. eXCUSE ME MA'AM ATWOOD BUT I AM SO INTRIGUED!!!

[9] ‘To want is to have a weakness. It’s this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It’s like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable.’
[10] ’[Scrabble] was once the game of old women, old men, in the summers or in retirement villas, to be played when there was nothing good on television.’ damn Atwood really wants me to feel like a granddad, doesn't she?

[7] when things get clearer and you realize what the job of the Handmaids actually is. goddamn, i can never—
[8] so Atwood's non-use of quotation marks in some of the dialogue is a deliberate creative decision to highlight shifts of time settings, and arguably, to make the readers assess the accuracy of the narrator's memory. so damn brilliant! ma'am, i gotta stan!!!

[5] ‘The two others have purple placards hung around their necks: Gender Treachery. Their bodies still wear the Guardian uniforms. Caught together, they must have been, but where? A barracks, a shower?’ damn i'm gonna be so dead in Gilead HAHAHA
[6] ‘We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.’

i wanna analyze the text more but i'm tired af welp

[3] “He asks, are you happy,” says the interpreter. I can imagine it, their curiosity: Are they happy? How can they be happy?
“Yes, we are very happy,” I murmur. I have to say something. What else can I say?
[4] "This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary." chills omg

[1] now i understand why some people complain about Atwood not using quotation marks. it doesn't bother me much atm but let's see if it gets more confusing.
[2] "I enjoy the power; power of a dog bone, passive but there. I hope they get hard at the sight of us and have to rub themselves against the painted barriers, surreptitiously." feminist 1984, i see you!!!

okay so i'm back with the dystopian sci-fi game after the fiasco that happened with the last book i read woops

i trust Margaret Atwood to deliver a brilliant narrative which will shock me like how my beloved dystopian novels did

LET'S SEE HOW THIS GOES!!!