#i have NEVER loved der besuch der alten dame so much

[itadore-you]

LIFE UPDATE !! <3

GUYSYSUGYVFUICHJOPSHIGUFYDUIHWOSPCIJOHIGUFYSGUHIJOCD IM GOING TO UNIVERSITY THIS SEPTEMBERRRRRRRRR TO STUDY MEDICINEEEEE

TWO YEARS. TWO YEARS OF PAIN WENT INTO THIS OH MY GODDDDDDD I CANT BELIEVE I MADE IT

I STILL REMEMBER MY GERMAN TEACHERS SAYING NO WHEN I ASKED TO BE PREDICTED A*. I REMEMBER GETTING B IN MY BIOLOGY END OF YEAR AND CRYING MY EYES OUT THINKING I COULDNT APPLY ANYMORE. I REMEMBER THE DISAPPOINTMENT EVERY SINGLE TIME I PUSHED HARD FOR CHEMISTRY BUT DIDNT PUSH HARD ENOUGH NONE OF IT MATTERS ANYMORE IM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

#in case u guy s wanna know i got A* in german A in bio & chem AND I WAS TWO MARKS OFF BIOLOGY A* BTW #I CANT BELIEVE MY DUMBASS SOMEHOW MANAGED TO PULL THIS OFF #7 marks off chem A* LIKE maybe I'm not the dumbest person in the world #spent yesterday drawing and playing fortnite afterwards bc I didn't know what to do with myself JODIUYGFUGHIAJOIHG #BTW I GOT FULL MARKS IN MY GERMAN WRITING PAPER I AM NEVER LETTING GO OF THIS MY TEACHERS THOUGHT I WAS SO SHIT AT ESSAYS OMG #i have NEVER loved der besuch der alten dame so much #and maybe das leben der anderen is a better film than i give it credit for #i used to hate biology with my life BUT SHOUTOUT MY STUDY GROUP AND MY BIO WIFE THEY SAVED ME I SWEAR #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH #im gonna start studying more grammar + listening to more german music + learning more vocab bc i REFUSE to let that language go now. lmao #life update #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #i ll prob edit this later bc i said so much ahhaah

[archduke-enver-gortash]

for the distraction questions: Do you have a favorite book? Or if picking just one is too difficult, a favorite author or just a book you've enjoyed recently? :)

picking favourites is so so so hard for me so. i recently read der besuch der alten dame by friedrich dürrenmatt (sorry for the german lmao) and i was surprised at how much i ended up enjoying parts of it because the author’s writing style is not my cup of tea at all. i hope you’ll forgive me for taking this opportunity to just ramble about something a bit—i really do not like how some people almost exclusively talk about this book being a ‘girlboss revenge’ story. yes, alfred (the main character of the story) did claire (the other main character) extremely dirty (the premise is essentially that alfred did some shit to her in their youth, but she ends up being a successful millionaire while their small hometown slowly rots because of a lack of funds. decades later she returns and offers the town a large sum of money in exchange for alfred’s death), but a large point of this fucking book is that the people of the town (güllen) do NOT care about justice, they use it as a sort of cloak or shield to quench the guilt in their hearts. all of them loved that man, he was basically guaranteed to become the next mayor, and they turned on him as soon as money was involved but not a second earlier. they never liked claire. they never cared for her when she was left to suffer by alfred’s actions years ago. claire now is metaphorically AND literally barely human anymore because she is essentially a living statement of ‘money above all else’. later on it’s revealed that she has been a big factor in why the town was on the brink of bankruptcy in the first place, meaning that she let all of these people suffer and weaponise exactly that suffering when she returns!!!

ok sorry i forgot where i was going w this hope u enjoyed the incoherent ramble a bit nonetheless 👍

[dmagedgoods]

Top 5 books? 😀

Ohh, that’s a difficult question too.

Let’s see … I’ll go for those that left the strongest impression and/or influenced my own choices in writing because there are many books I highly enjoy for being entertaining but only a few that left a deep imprint in one way or another. 5. Der Besuch der Alten Dame / The Visit (Friedrich Dürrenmatt) – Extremely wealthy older woman returns to her poor former hometown with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who wronged her in her youth. I picked this one because it’s highly endearing with so much black humor, I could have chosen anything written by Dürrenmatt though, he was brilliant. 4. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) – Scientist with a temporary unhealthy obsession with alchemy discovers the secret of life and builds a creature from dead bodies but fails to take care of his creation. When I first read it, I was surprised at how sensitive and multi-layered the story is told and especially intrigued by the choice of words and storytelling itself, the how captivated me as much as the what and I learned a lot. There is so much nonsense out there done with that story by people who probably don’t even know it and that’s a pity. 3. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) – Young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty, anyone knows the story, but its whole flair never fails to fascinate me. There is so much in there, in terms of thoughts on morality (or the lack of it), art, people, life itself and I love me a terrible person as the narrator, those are the best. 2. The Golem and the Jinni (Helene Wecker) – 1899, New York, the reader follows two mythical beings (the Golem Chava and the Jinni Ahmad) on their journey through the lives of those close to them (and their cultures) and their own struggles with their nature and humankind. It’s not a romance, but it’s a love story, multilayered and emotional, and exciting. 1. The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice) – Gothic horror novels about a bunch of vampires and their highly fucked up intriguing lives, relationships, and moral (and amoral) dilemmas. Yes, those are my all-time favorite books, especially “The Vampire Lestat” and “the Queen of the Damned” if I had to pick. I never again found a book (series) this endearing, unhinged, and focused on its characters (something I enjoy a lot).

#dmagedramblings #it's terribly hard to pick #😭 #thank you so much for the question <3

[haeddoti]

This is my first blog-post and it is about some of the books I read between year 7 and 11 in my German high school. These books aren’t in a particular order, I just wrote all of them down and took some notes to guide me along. I’ll give a brief summary and then my thoughts about the books.

Without further due, let’s get into the series!

Nr. 1 “Hexen in der Stadt-Ingeborg Engelhardt”

We read this book in seventh grade and immediately after reading (actually during reading as well) we asked ourselves how and why someone thought “Hell yeah, that’s a topic for 11 year olds” since the book is originally listed for grade 5 and 6.

The story takes place in a German town during the Thirty years war, the witch hunts are running wild and the church is all over the place. The story follows a family of four who live in this town, the father is a doctor, one daughter is read-headed and the other a sleep walker. And although the father is greatly needed in this time, the towns people are really suspicious of the family, and they have to flee the city.

First of all, the book was so dense, it was almost unbearable. Definitely not something for children and yet the book won the “Youth literature award” in Germany, so I guess it wasn’t too bad after all. I honestly don’t remember a lot from it, I know we watched a horrible movie about it and I also remember that the pacing(?) in the book was weird, because the first 80% or so took reaaaally long to read through and virtually nothing happened and then in the last 20% everything happened all at once and it was just too much.

Nr. 2 “Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee-Thomas Brussig”

The only (apparent) reason why we read this book was because we had our final class trip to Berlin in year 10.

 The setting is the DDR, East-Berlin to be precise, somewhere around 1970ish. Our protagonist Micha lives in a street which was cut in half my the Berlin Wall and he, unfortunately enough, lives in East-Berlin. He frequent meets with his friends in a nearby park where they listen to West-Music and swoon about Miriam, the neighborhood beauty who is kinda a not-like-other-girls-girl.

All in all, the books is about searching happiness and thinking about how it is so very close and yet never being able to reach it.

It was comfortable to read and overall it was an okay novel. I don’t remember much about it, although I literally read it a year ago. The insight about east-Berlin was cool, and the author definitely implemented own experiences and as someone who grew up in post-split Westgermany it was rather informative and interesting. The quote on the back of the book was also pretty.

“Happy people have a bad memory and rich memoirs”

Nr. 3 “Frühlings Erwachen-Frank Wendekind”

(Springs Awakening)

Oh. My. God. This whole topic was such a BS and I hated every second of it.

The book takes place, once again, in a German Town in a time where there is no Sex-Ed, aka 1900th century, which is also the topic of the book; Sex-Ed gone wrong. Our first protagonist Wendla grows up in a home with a loving, strict mother and far, far away from everything unholy like sex. Our second protagonist, Melchior, is a really smart, really handsome boy who is the top of his class and who likes to read provocative literature which makes him think about masturbation. His best friend is also handsome but really stupid but the social pressure keeps him from dropping out of school- that and his strict, abusive father. Melchior and Wendla fall in love (he hits her with sticks after she metions that she has never been hurt before), have Sex(he rapes her) and after Wendla gets pregnant and dies after an attempted abortion via poisonous plants her aunt have her, Melchior is only mildly devastated. He turns sad, and kinda crazy, after his best friend commits suicide. He has a rendez-vous with the ghost and death itself, he is happy again? I dunno, the whole book was all over the place.

Worse than the book was the discussions we had in class afterwards. One time we had to argue whether it was in-fact rape or if it was just sex. Second discussion we had was about Wendla being a masochist.

The worst thing about the whole topic was the stupid ass movie adaptation.

You think Percy Jackson has it bad? Oh boy. Ohhh boy. The movie plays in the 2000s, graffiti, cool skater boys, rapper-wannabes and early 2000s fashion included. The names stayed tho, cause why not name the male protagonist Melchior in 2001. There are scenes where teenagers, TEENAGERS, go to a brothel. Ah, I forgot.

They are 13-14, book and movie alike.

10/10 would NOT recommend.

Nr. 4 “Der Besuch der alten Dame-Friedrich Dürrenmatt”

(The visit)

(No, not the horror movie)

Oh my goodness, I loved this book.

Picture this. A small town in a German province far away from any major cities with a single trail connection between Hambourg and Zurich, aka the whole length of Germany, where virtually nothing happens. One day, a former resident, comes for a visit. But not just anyone, Claire frikking Zachanassian comes for a visit.

And for blood, because this sixty-something, badass multi-billionaire who got her fortune by marrying a bunch of men who died coincidentally one after the other proposes to the town an offer.

One billion for the head of the man, Alfred the third, who expelled her out of the town after getting her pregnant and lying about it in court after she sued him.

They sent her away in the train, called her a hoe and laughed about her. She lived in a brother for a little while, her son died, and a horny, rich man decided to marry her because why not.  

At first the towns people are disgusted by the offer, outraged by the immoral offer and they straight up deny it. “I’ll wait, Claire says”.

You see, the town is really, really poor. Not only because it is in a terrible location commercially wise, but also because Claire bought every factory in the town and brought them all to a stand still to slowly dry the city out. She planned this revenge.

And you see, the proposal of 500 million split between the inhabitants and 500 million for the industry of the city sounds great if you are on the brink of disaster and hunger and misery. But surely, with such an immoral offer, no one would want to commit a crime? Or would they.

Because, now that I look at it, Alfred really did something horrible… maybe, just maybe I can allow myself to stack up some dept.

And Alfred grew more and more paranoid. Begging Claire to stop this, apologizing on his knees, crying and sleeping with one open eye at all times.

We discussed in our class what we would do. We didn’t really came to a conclusion since we had nothing to compare, not one of us was ever asked to make such a decision. “It depends” was our final answer.

They do kill him in the end. It doesn’t end happy, Claire isn’t happy, but she does give the towns people their money. I really enjoyed reading this book. The female “antagonist” was refreshingly bad-ass and the moral despair was entertaining to read.

We learn that Claire is rich and powerful, but that she lost so much innocence, so much energy to enjoy her life in such young years that, as a reader, you cannot not sympathize with her.

Nr. 5 “Das Versprechen-Friedrich Dürrenmatt”

(The pledge)

Hands down the best book I’ve read in school.

This book is originally a critique by Dürrenmatt about the emerging detective novel genre where everything always works out.

The setting is in a Swiss town, 1950ish, and in the beginning the reader takes on the role of an author who meets a certain Dr. H who works for the police. They become friends and take a ride through the mountains. Upon taking a stop at a gas station, Dr. H introduces us to a seemingly old, smoking, alcohol-reeking man and a scruffy looking girl. The narrator is confused, asks who these people are, and back in the car, we learn that this is the former detective, no-one-escapes-me, super-brain Matthäi.

From that point on the narrator switches and we are now in a third person narrator perspective.

Matthäi is introduced again, this happening in the past, as a hard-working, clean, structured man who doesn’t smoke, drink or disobeys rules. No one really likes him in the office, but they value that he just so good at his job. But because he is so unapproachable, they want to sent him away to Jordan.

The week he was planning to travel there, a young girl is raped and then brutally murdered in a small town nearby. And because he is Mister Superbrain, he goes there to help investigate.

The other officers at the crime scene are (understandably) uncomfortable, they don’t want to talk to the family, or the people there in general. So Matthäi talks to everyone. He is a very calm, collected, cold man. So he meets with the family, tells them what happened to their daughter and is utterly, completely shocked when the mother just blankly stares in his face, and asks him to promise her to find the murderer of her daughter. He is shocked by the lack of emotion in this moment and sees himself in this cold visage of the mother. He promises her, just to get away from her as fast as possible, and drives back to be office.

I don’t want to spoil too much because this book is just so good, but oh my god

I’m in general a sucker for drastic changes in character or demeanor (hence why I liked The Visit so much as well) but his book takes everything to another level. They “plottwist” is so incredibly frustrating and nerve wraking to read, the perspective changes provide so much more depth.

And for the first time I finally read a really intricate, morally gray character.

Nr. 6 “Nathan der Weise-G. E. Lessing”

(Nathan the Wise)

This book was kinda eh. If I had so summarize it as fast as possible it would probably be “Religion and accidental incest”. It is about the three world religions and stereotypes between them, about genocide and also about stigmatization. It ends on a nice note, tho.

The only really remarkable passage of this book is the so-called “Ringparabel” in which Nathan answers to the question which religion is the real, big OG of them all. It is pretty nice and the symbolism is really fitting as well. The beginning of the book is incredibly boring but it does get better in the end. All in all not a total waste of time and money but nothing I would read again.

Nr. 7 “Die Leiden des jungen Werther- Goethe”

(The sorrows of young Werther)

Ah yes, no German class without Goethe. This book is written in a way that lets the reader really seep into Werthers emotion because it is written as a letter-novel. Werther is a young, nature-loving guy who (in the beginning of the book) is just really happy, go-lucky and over all nice. Then he meets Lotte, a young, pretty, smart and book-loving woman who is empathic to all those around her.  He falls in love with her, despite knowing that she is literally engaged and about to marry. She knows he loves her, her fiance know he loves her and literally everyone knows he loves her and they are ok with it? I dunno. Werther has a severe Seasonal-affective-Disorder. He kinda makes it through the first winter after meeting Lotte but never really recovers, even during summer. In the second winter, he can’t take it anymore and he commits suicide.

I liked the book (not only because I can identify with the SAD). In the end we learn that Lotte isn’t as good as we originally think she is; She is actually really possessive of Werther and although she wants him to be happy, she doesn’t think anyone is good enough for him and thus he should just stay close to her. She enjoys the attention given by her husband, who is actually really nice and whom she does love, and by Werther who is utterly and completely obsessed with her.

Opinions on this book split 50/50 with my friends. Some of them think like me and they see the heart break and the desire to move on but ultimately, the way attraction is so so strong. Some other friends, more specifically my Help-with-Maths-Go-to-Guy hated this book with a burning passion. I can see why. The imagery is sometimes a tad too far-fetched and the wording is, in true Goethe-Fashion really hard to read and the sentences are kinda messed up as well.

But in the end it is still the book which opened the way for Goethe to be one of the greatest writers in Europe and I can see why.

Oh wow. This concludes all the books I read thus far. There will be definitely more to come next year and maybe I’ll do another post like this once I read some more.

I hope you enjoyed to read my thoughts and maybe felt inspired to look into one of these as well!

See you soon!

#books #german highschool #goethe #durrenmatt #my thoughts and opinions #we read more but these are the ones i recall best

[tacklemeramos]

Tag 10 followers you’d like to get to know more! 

So I know this sucks bc I literally got tagged more than 70 days ago. But I finally got my laptop back to working and got some time so thanks @loveisthekeyword for tagging me! I hope you still love me even when I suck like this! 

Name: Sophie

Star Sign: Saggitarius 

Gender: Female

Height: 180 cm

Sexuality: Bi 

What image do you have as a wallpaper: Some galaxy thingy. 

Where do you see yourself in 10 years: Hopefully working in a job that is paid enough so I can have a good life, travel once a year and don’t have to worry about money anymore. Living in a nice flat with my bf, still enjoying life together as much as we do now. And maybe less sick bc i finally made it to a doctor.

If you could be anywhere else right now, where would you be: Haven’t had that feeling in a long time: here right now is good. 

What was your coolest Halloween costume: Probably vampire.

What’s your favorite 90s show: Full House! 

Last kiss: 5 minutes ago. 

Have you ever been stood up: Never awefully bad tbh. But yes.

Have you ever been to Las Vegas: No.

Favorite pair of shoes: Well since I only have two pairs of shoes constantly I like those that aren’t broken atm. 

Favorite fruit: Banana and strawberries (Copy + Paste, Thanks Aurore!)

Favorite book: Der Besuch der alten Dame - Friedrich Dürrenmatt 

Stupidest thing you’ve ever done:  Being unhappy in a relationship but staying in it far too long. 

Tagging: @raatakelihai (you are kind of the only person reblogging my stuff haha!) 

Favorite gif: This one! 

#raatakelihai #loveisthekeyword #about me

[firestorm717]

Der Besuch der alten Dame - Liebe endet nie

Alfred and Claire meet at their favorite place in the woods for a final farewell.

Claire Alfred. How nice to see you here in my woods. Alfred Do the woods belong to you too? Claire Of course. May I sit next to you? Alfred Niklas bought a sports car for himself. Claire Progress. Alfred Julia is taking tennis lessons. What's more, she's learning English and French. Claire Now, you see. The sense of ideals did come to them. Alfred We also had a child. Claire Oh, yes. Our child. Alfred I'm so sorry about what happened. Claire I wanted to name her Genevieve. Alfred A pretty name. Claire She is dead. You killed her. And you killed me too when I was seventeen. I loved you, but - Alfred My wife knows that I've only ever loved you. Claire Is that really true? Alfred Yes. Claire I loved you so much. But you betrayed me. Why did you do that? But the dream of life, of love, of trust, that I have never gotten. Alfred Oh, Claire. I didn't want to leave you lying there, you must believe me. I thought you were dead, and when I learned you still lived, I... I didn't know what to do. I was cowardly. It seemed easier to me to live with a lie. Claire Alfred, I knew that all along. Alfred You knew that? Claire You were so strong and brave. Alfred And you were the most beautiful girl of all. Claire All that could have been. All that could have been between us. You and I, the two of us together. Alfred It's always still possible. Claire No. No! You ruined everything. Our life. Our love! You destroyed everything. Alfred Claire. Claire I'll never forgive you! Never! Never! Die! DIE! Alfred Were my all. Were my light. Claire My world bears your face. Alfred Doubt and pain, we did not know. Claire and Alfred Lost times full of affection. Claire Found my reason for living in you. Alfred Were the angel beside me. Claire Flame and embers, so were we. Claire and Alfred Caught in the intoxication, And I still feel the desire today even in sorrow. Alfred Love never ends. None is as strong as she. The universe may quake, She remains alive. Claire and Alfred Love is magic. No one can kill her. She remains in the heart like a breath of poetry. Love never dies. Claire Were there a way for us to return to that squandered bliss, Alfred I could with you, and you could with me, Claire and Alfred Again walk on clouds and look upon the heavens! Love never ends. None is as strong as she. The universe may quake, She remains alive. Love is magic. No one can kill her. She remains in the heart like a breath of poetry. Love never dies. Alfred I wish so much for a way to return to that squandered bliss. Claire and Alfred Then we need not lose this, Could once again touch the sun! Love never ends. None is as strong as she. The universe may quake, She remains alive! Good times pass. Dreams, they fade away. Hope turns to melancholy, Only the love never dies.

#der besuch der alten dame #translations #lyrics

[sherlocks-east-wind]

I was tagged by @piascleavage :)))

I’m tagging: 3 book lovers @vocallife @iwriteficnottragedy @catsandcoffee7

1. Do you remember how you developed a love for reading?

I guess during our long car rides when we were kids - back then I hated road trips because they were kinda boring so my mom always got us a book to read for the journey and now I’m hooked

2. Where do you usually read?

in the car :D (when I’m not driving obviously), in bed - in very awkward positions, on my sofa, and I read A LOT when on vacation and there’s a beach bc crashing waves are the best background noise to a good story

3. Do you prefer to read one book at a time or several at once?

I usually start multiple ones until I find one I really like and then continue reading only that and revert back to the others once I’m done and start the whole process over :)

4. What is/are your favourite book(s)? 

OHHHH that list is long, here some of my recent favs: Besuch der alten Dame (duh - everyone who got to know me just a bit knows how obsessed I am with that book and musical) Wild - it doesn’t get more inspiration as this book, I guess you could call this one my absolute favorite bc THIS BOOK SPEAKS TO ME ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL, this is one of the rare ones I actually read multiple times The Martian - good shit. funny shit. scientific shit. witty shit. what more to love? Decision Points - that one biography that dragged me down biography lane :) and made me more open to different opinions as I read it during my exchange year An astronauts guide to life on earth - bc Chris Hadfield is AMAZING and if there’s someone that I will listen to when they talk about life, then it’s an astronaut who played Major Tom in SPACE - good stuff

5. Do you have a least favourite book?

THAT ONE BOOK. OH DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED. Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen is the worst thing I’ve ever laid my eyes on. Completely un-readable. Such a chaos, full of offensive opinions and written by an author who hates everything and everyone on this earth and probably most himself. 

6. What is your favourite genre?

My love for biographies is HUGE but I also really like books with a life lesson in it, and sometimes a good light hearted romantic novel is key to a perfect vacation day when sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower on a fountain, eating crepe and reading while the sun sets (did I mention that I love reading while on vacation bc YESSSSS)

7. Is there a genre you won’t read?

Fantasy - YES, I love Harry Potter, but everything else is just not really appealing to me, give me real life please

8. What is the longest book you ever read?

Page wise: Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (I think some 1050 pages?) Time wise: any book we ever had to read for class, some of them I have yet to finish

9. What book are you currently reading?

The Book of Mormon

10. What was the last book you finished?

Promises to keep - Joe Biden 

11. What was the last book you bought?

Hidden Figures - and I can’t wait to start reading it!!!!

12. Do you have a favourite book quote?

Alright, that might be the most tumblr-basic response ever but:

“Always” - Snape

THAT QUOTE DRAGGED ME THROUGH HELL OF FEELS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN AT AN AGE THAT I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS CAPABLE OF HAVING THEM

Also there are other quotes that just leave me completely stunned for a second (where I have to put the book down and drink some tea) and I usually highlight them in the book to come back to them later :)

13. Do you prefer library books or buying books?

BUYING BOOKS. Give me something where I can scribble in, highlight important stuff, drag it to the beach, on the plane, in the bathtub, … a book of mine in the end tells to stories: its own and the story of me reading it :) there are still some books with crumbs of sand in between pages

14. Where do you buy your books?

Austrian book stores, Shakespeare & Company book store in Vienna (ENGLISH BOOKSTORE FOR THE WIN), Amazon, and tiny book stores in Vienna - especially for biographies

15. How many books do you buy a month?

Sometimes 500, sometimes 0, depending on the time I have to read and how many unread books I’m still hoarding

16. How many books do you own?

Quite a number :) some fav ones double (one in Vienna and one in my home in Lower Austria), some on my phone when the original one is too heavy to carry around, …. but not enough. 

17. How do you feel about second hand books?

GIVE ME ALL OF THEM. SECOND HAND BOOKS ON THE INTERNET ARE CHEAP AND AMAZING.

18. Do you prefer E-books or physical books?

PHYSICAL BOOKS - sometimes I buy the ebook as well when I don’t want to carry around the physical one (like Alexander Hamilton, that thing is   h e a v y)

19. Do you prefer paperback or hardback?

Paperback!

20. Do you prefer to read trilogies/series or standalones?

Standalones :) if I need a bit more I google for fanfictions ;)

21. What is the weirdest thing you’ve used as a bookmark?

I will use absolutely anything for a bookmark. Heck, I even put my Hamster in between pages ones when I quickly went out of the room (no hamster was harmed in that process).

22. What is more important to you: characters or plot?

C H A R A C T E R S - if there are good characters, there is no bad plot

23. Do you ever judge a book by its cover?

sooooometimes, so I usually try not to pay too much attention to it

24. What’s the most beautiful book you own?

I have this version of Wizard of Oz, that I got from the Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. The cover looks like threats woven to a picture, the pages look charmingly old and have slightly different sizes so the end is not that clean and the illustrations are to DIE FOR. Never read it though bc I’m not really a fan of the story, I just really liked to look of the book.

25. What is your favorite book to movie/tv adaptation?

The Devil wears Prada - bc Meryl Streep is a goddess Harry Potter saga - bc reasons Hamlet - the BBC version with David Tennant *heart eyes*

26. What is the best beverage to drink while reading a book?

The ultimate drink (goes along with vacation feeling and lying on the beach reading): coke with ice and a slice of lemon  others: tea, iced tea, Starbucks Coffee (I’m a basic white girl yall) and Orange Juice

27. Are you looking forward to any book release? If so, which one?

Not really :) the last one I was looking forward to was “Hidden Figures”

28. Recommend me a book :3

WILD - by Sheryl Strayed … READ IT, LOVE IT! & for a good laugh: The Martian, bc that’s a masterpiece!

#too much julia