Zeynab’s Reviews > One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich > Status Update

Pavlo is such a diva

It’s dog eat dog here.

Damn this Soviet prison shit ain’t for me

50 pages in and I’m still thinking about his dilemma earlier in the book over which of the two pairs of shoes he has should he wear and the causal cruelty of it

“A convict’s thoughts are no freer than he is: they come back to the same place, worry over the same thing continually.”
📝📝📝📝📝

“food swallowed in a hurry is food wasted, you feel no fuller and it does nothing for you.”

Lowkey yeah now that I think abt it