Currently Reading: Sappho, Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
Technically a re-read, yes, but I'm also waiting for book mail to arrive as I'd timed my reading of the Poetic Edda to be done once my order got here. And thanks to the snow, it was delayed by about half a week. So... some Sappho in the mean time, I guess?
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Stella: I can't believe we're locked in this room together!
Christian: *discreetly throwing the key out the window* I know! How unfortunate indeed.
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I hopped outta bed and went to the nearest black owned bookstore and got my new baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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from Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Count of Monte Cristo - A Book Review
Spoiler free summary: Is is possible to give spoilers on a 200+year old book...? Any way to be on the safe side, spoilers are below the cut. Novel telling the story of Edmond Dantes, a young sailor falsely accused by his jealous rivals of treason. I enjoyed this in parts, although I think the middle does drag a little.
Review continues with spoilers below
This isn't normally the kind of book I would pick up, but I have been seeing it consistently getting mentioned on the r/books subreddit as one of peoples favourite novels of all time. After about a year of seeing this getting mentioned again and again, I decided to give it a go.
I have mixed feelings about the novel. I was riveted for the first... 200 pages of the book and the last 300 pages. Basically from the start up until Edmond escapes from prison I read almost without stopping (although I admit I skimmed a bit the section where the abbe explains where the treasure comes from), and from the point when Ferdinand's treachery is exposed in the newspaper right up to the end again I was gripped. Unfortunately that does leave about 500 pages in the middle of the book where I was interested but not engrossed. I think structurally this book suffers the same malady some of Dickens novels do (for me anyway), there are a lot of long diversions from the main plot which I struggle to keep interested in.
I really liked the character of Edmond, I liked following his clever plots to try and bring about the downfall of his enemies. Some of the sequences of events seem a little implausible but I'm willing to let it pass in the name a good adventure story!
The themes of revenge and justice are well developed, especially towards the end of the book when Edmond realises that his quest for vengeance leads to the death of a young boy and he starts to question whether he really has the right to met out "god's justice".
I'm glad I read it, but I don't think it's going in my list of favourites.
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Why do they keep fucking up omfg
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Once again thwarted by the binding, repressive laws of the universe (my local library's hold limit)
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{June 2022} Pyramids
{2022 Reading Challenge: book 31/40}
★★★★★ (5/5)
Author: Terry Pratchett
Pages: 341
Main genre: Fantasy, Humor
Serial?: Discworld #7
Release date: 1989
{Woops! No review here due to: I'm lazy. But if you like fantasy & haven't read the Discworld books go ahead and do it! They're amazing.}
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The most underrated Maggie Stiefvater book
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When Naoko said:
"I want you to always remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you like this?"
I really felt that :((
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I have to be the hottest person in the classical literature section
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