Rated Mysteries 5/10
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Rated Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil 10/10
Rated In a Glass Darkly 8/10
Rated A Tale for the Time Being 10/10
A tender, strange and intellectually restless novel about time, memory, loneliness and the fragile ways people become connected through words. It moves between intimate teenage despair and much larger questions about history, technology, nature and whether reading someone’s story can become a form of responsibility.
Some of its philosophical detours occasionally slow the emotional momentum, but they also give the book its unusual depth. What stayed with me most was its refusal to treat suffering as something neat or easily resolved. It allows uncertainty to remain uncertainty.
Quietly devastating, formally playful and much warmer than its darkest moments initially suggest. A book about finding another person’s voice and realizing that simply paying attention may already change both of you.
Rated Night of the Grizzlies 8/10
Wants to read Os Demônios
Rated A Room with a View 6/10
Wants to read Uncle Silas
Wants to read The Queen of the Night
Rated Revolutionary Road 10/10
Wants to read American Pastoral
Wants to read Salvage the Bones
Wants to read The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Rated A Farewell to Arms 2/10