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if y'all dont stop shelving latinamerican books as "spanish literature" im gonna start shelving american books as "british literature"

going on a 10h plane ride in a few days. hoping to finish The Talented Mr. Ripley then. if i have time ill also read Born A Crime since i gotta read it for school

goodreads finally let me verify my email now i can talk hello

how awful must a 5-year-old boy be for people to describe him as vicious and cruel even after he died

what the fuck just happened

oh fuck

very worried about how this book is gonna end

what the fuck Richard

"we were not ordinary friends, but friends till-death-do-us-part."

what the actual fuck Charles

"a waste of time, I was behind in school, there were papers to write and exams coming up but I was still young; the grass was green and the air was heavy with the sound of bees and I had just come back from the brink of Death itself, back to the sun and air. Now i was free; and my life, which i had thought was lost, stretched out indescribably precious and sweet before me"

the funeral scene is so beautifully written holy shit

"an old shoe was lying on the asphalt in front of the loading dock, where the ambulance had been only minutes before. It wasn't Bunny's shoe. I don't know whose it was or how it got there. It was just an old tennis shoe lying on its side. I don't know why i remember that now, or why it made such an impression on me"
i don't know why this was such an impactful way to end a chapter, but it was

que bronca con este libro me cansa tener que leerlo

im finally getting out of my reading slump