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Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

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Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home (translated by Megan McDowell)

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οκ so i started reading the tunnel and, is it just me reading the text wrong or is this mf kind of contradictory? he says he hates pride or that he's not writing the story because of pride but then immediately he follows by calling himself a 'celebrity' and THEN goes on to describe his peers as 'morons' etc etc. something smells funky here

yea, his fallibility as a narrator is intentional and shown through his contradictory actions and thoughts. arguably, every first person narrator is unreliable but in this case this guy is more of an unfit narrator since he's not okay in the head, so he's unintentionally misguided and self-deluded, which adds depth to the story. as i said in a different post ⬇️

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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loveeee your quizzes and your art taste 😘 i have to admit i didn't know most of the music questions but i'm making a playlist

thanks, thanks, and cool <3 i hope you like them

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Naomi Shihab Nye, “Love Letter, Hate Letter.” Red Suitcase

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hello your highness, 2024 book quiz version when ???? *looks at you with big brown eyes*

but it's only April lol

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Langston Hughes, “Litany.” Selected poems of Langston Hughes

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SO. I read chapter 35 of the tunnerl because you got me curious about the promising misery that would follow, and I think that I really have to read the whole book to truly understand it - HOWEVER, the wall of glass allegory got me a bit fucked up, if I may say so. You never miss with lietarture !

you know what, i don't don't think it's sad, so idk about that misery hehe maybe you'll feel it, maybe not. the novel is more disturbing than sad. what fascinated me was the style and vision of the author. it's a story about obsession, paranoia and loneliness, narrated by a very unstable individual. so, you know, an unreliable narrator type of situation, and it's a very detailed exposition of his madness.

and yea, that particular chapter in which he explains how he sees his existence is extraordinary, in my opinion. the tunnel is how the character feels his life has transcurred; isolated and lonely, helpless and in darkness.

thanks for that 😬 this one's a Latin American classic, published in 1948, and it's Ernesto Sábato's very first novel. I haven't read The Stranger by Camus but I read somewhere that the novels are similar, and that Camus liked The Tunnel a lot and helped to get it translated and published in France 👍🏻

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The Tunnel posting ✌🏼 (chapter 35 in the original and 36 in some editions in english. anyway, if you read it and find it boring please DON'T let me know lol)

#it's so well written imo. as i said‚ great character study #the author presents the narrator's flaws and impulses in an extremely logical style; excessively detailed and a very terse prose #it's a very controlled style of writing but it's about uncontrollable emotions that the narrator regards as rational #but they're only fueled by suspicions and assumptions‚ and it's all in his insecure and troubled mind #the tunnel #ernesto sabato #el túnel

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the tunnel is so boring 😫

didn't reply the other day cause you pissed me off a little 😒 but now i'm good hehe idk i really loved it and i think it's a brilliant novel; breathtaking prose and insane character study. i couldn't get enough of that psycho Juan Pablo Castel and his obsession and paranoia. the part in which he talks about The Tunnel (and we get to know why that's the title lol) absolutely floored me 😐👍🏻 also i read it in its original language so maybe you read a soulless translation lol it wouldn't be the first time gringos mess up a Latin American translation (they messed up La ciudad y los perros, according to the author himself). idk idk idk it's also not the first time i'm told something i like is boring ❤️‍🩹 it's like i always say... you wouldn't get it 🚬

#rebloging this here cause The Tunnel is the novel i read in one sitting and i posted about it on my main and someone sent this lol #there's an ask in the inbox of this blog telling me The Savage Detectives is boring 😒 so yea it made me think of that 🚬

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the other night i read an entire novel in one sitting and tonight i'm halfway another one; a longer one so i don't think i'll finish it tonight. but anyway, WE'RE SO BACK!

#and the main character‚ Lewis‚ breaks my heart and he reminds me of Philip (Of Human Bondage) cause his mom also dies #and because it's a coming of age story too #and btw Of Human Bondage is mentioned so i'm sure it was an inspiration and i'm not hallucinating this closeness i feel #and also Crime and Punishment is mentioned which is interesting cause Lewis goes to jail 👍🏻 #and Anna Karenina is mentioned too and he's... Lewis is not okay in the head and adultery is a theme too #so that's cool huh intertextuality and what not #the novel is The Outcast by Sadie Jones btw

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Han Kang, “White Hair.” The White Book (translated by Deborah Smith)

My Love, Don't Cross That River (2013) dir. Jin Mo-young

Eileen Myles, “Peanut Butter.” I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

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Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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this morning the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on a resolution calling for a ban on arms sales to Israel and the resolution passed. two Israeli border points opened for aid routes (they were supposedly open? lmao), Biden is calling for an immediate ceasefire, last night was the first without air attacks on Gaza.. the killing of seven foreign aid workers shook the world apparently, but oh god how late. the journey to recognising genocide for some seems to avoid acknowledging the humanity of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered

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June Jordan, “Free Flight.” Haruko/Love Poems