chapter chats 📚

a place for me to put my thoughts about the books that ive read

[orcboxer]

Whenever I make fun of deer skull old god blood pomegranate cannibal flesh teeth, it's vitally important that you know that I'm saying you can't write whatever you want. You have to write what I want and the only thing I want is gnome-centric sims 4 erotica

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literally why are the first 13 pages of intermezzo written like that. it's giving me a headache.

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I'm reading Anna Karenina and everyone sucks but Levin is hilarious bc his entire story is him repeatedly having a Moment where he's like "thats is im sick of this it's time to lock in" and then immediately locking the fuck out

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I hope kitty kills vronsky with a hammer

[sprouttheambassador]

running errands like kurt vonnegut

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⬆️ like so

[danhumphrey]

this comment under a bookstore video of all the first editions of the hobbit they have… i’m going to start crying

[kosmogrl]

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sorry to all the catcher in the rye haters but I find holden caulfield hilarious

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Okay like he's a really sad kid and I understand that he's struggling to find a constructive way to engage with the world around him but would loooooove it if he could string together like, a single sentence

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Ope nevermind his speech pattern just changed

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sorry to all the catcher in the rye haters but I find holden caulfield hilarious

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Okay like he's a really sad kid and I understand that he's struggling to find a constructive way to engage with the world around him but would loooooove it if he could string together like, a single sentence

[phantomsofyourformerself]

girl who finally is going back to reading by finishing one book: now i'm going to read all the books in the world.

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sorry to all the catcher in the rye haters but I find holden caulfield hilarious

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March 2025 Wrap-Up

Maeve Fly by CJ Leede

I'm so disappointed that I hated this book. Everyone I've talked to that has read it loved it, and several have said it's one of their favorite books. It concerns Maeve, a young woman living in Hollywood who works at a theme park in Anaheim that is not Disneyland and plays an ice-based princess that is not Elsa. When her best friend's brother moves to town, Maeve's entire life turns upside down and she lashes out violently at the world around her. I thought that this book was so, so boring. I ended up listening to it at 2.5x speed just to get through it so I can go to the club this month. Maybe if I liked romance books, I could have appreciated it as a fun subversion of the genre, but I don't like romance, and as a horror novel, I thought it fell flat. I try not to make judgements on an author's personality based on their work, but I just can't help but feel CJ Leede would be absolutely insufferable in real life.

⭐️⭐️/5

On Earth We're Breifly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

This book is a tender portait of a young boy and his mother living in the American south as Vietnamese imigrants. I thought that this book was beautiful. I really appreciate the introspection, the vulnerability, and the window into a life so different from my own. However, I always balance the craft of the book with how much I enjoy it when I decide on my rating, and I found myself dreading going back to this book. I've tried to read several books with this kind of poetic, lyrical, rolling prose, and I think it's just time to admit that I don't like them very much.

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo

Unfortunately, this book is so good. It's an absoultely ridiculous 1463 pages and I was really hoping I would get 500-600 pages into it and decide that it wasn't for me, but it's easily one of my favorite books I've ever read. It's a master class in characters and their development. It follows a massive cast of interconnected characters over the course of about 20 years against the backdrop of France in the first part of the 19th century. Even all of the chapters on history, philosophy, and political asides were engaging and gave insight into the characters and their thoughts and motivations. I am going to be so, so annoying and say that everyone should read this book.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

If you're interested in what I'll be reading in April, it'll be under the cut!

If you've read any of these books, I'd love to know what you thought about them!

I decided to go through and map out all of the books I'm going to read this year to try and reduce my decision fatigue. Every month, I'm going to read one classic, one contemporary book, and my book club pick. I have plenty of books waiting to be read, so if I have time, I'll pick up an extra one here and there, but that's mostly the plan.

This month, the classic is going to be The Catcher in the Rye, I know people looooove to hate on this book, but I'm actually pretty excited to read it.

For a contemporary read this month, I'm going with James by Percival Everett. I'm going to be so honest, every time I saw this sitting in the books store I didn't even bother to look at it because I thought it was a James Patterson book and then I was super confused when I saw it in so many people's year-end favorites lists. I'm glad I finally took a good look and decided to pull the trigger.

This month's book club pick is The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I'm pretty skeptical about this one. I don't really like sci-fi, especially super high-concept ones. I'm going into it with an open mind, though!

If I have some extra time this month, I'd really love to finally get around to reading The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Armin. Is there a better time??

[beneaththemoon4]

That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

[shakespearesdaughters]

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I finally finished les mis and I hate to be like, so annoying right now but it's so worth it i think everyone should read it

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what do you mean grantaire slept through the entire riot????

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]