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Giovanni's Room (1956) - James Baldwin

#giovanni's room #james baldwin #literary quotes #on depression #unfortunately relatable

new books today 📚

#booklr #bookblr #2026 #east of eden #john steinbeck #jack london #the call of the wild #white fang

#the secret history #rereading this in my book club!

my dream is to one day have a room that's just a reading room with my library and a place to curl up with a book and some candles maybe... yeah

#booklr #wow i need to update this blog

noahczreny

isnt it interesting that two people can read the same book and one will just move on and the other will have their entire dna changed by the characters i just love that reading is such a unique and entirely human experience

pjharvey

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

i think jeff vandermeer's acceptance is the only book i've read where there is a mix of third person, first person, AND second person povs. i like it, it adds to the jumbled-up nature of area x

#southern reach #acceptance #jeff vandermeer #booklr

huariqueje

Bright Morning - Kaoru Yamada

Japanese , b. 1975 -

Oil on canvas

1109s

elucubrare

there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.

leahgardner-art

café au lait ☕️

small book haul :•)

#2025 #booklr #southern reach #watership down #very excited to get to these!

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey (1818)

#jane austen #northanger abbey #quotes #on friendship #booklr #2025

January reviews

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott ★★★★★

i saw the 2019 film in theaters and i have wanted to read the book ever since. i'm glad i finally got to it! it's a sentimental book that made me tear up and cry many times, and i related to jo's reluctance to grow up while she loses everyone around her to adulthood, to womanhood, and to death. there are very sad moments in this book, but it's not bleak. there's always hope and love at the end of the day, and that's always the kind of story i prefer. while i don't agree with jo's being married at the end, i understand why alcott felt it necessary, and i appreciate the 2019 film for rectifying it and aligning the ending more with alcott's original intention. overall, this is a new favorite of mine, and I'm glad to start the year off with a really good read like this. it made me feel hopeful about my future and my life.

The Maltese Falcon (1930) by Dashiell Hammett ★★½

i read this for my readers' advisory class's mystery genre unit. I'm pretty familiar with detective fiction, having taken a whole class on it back in undergrad, but we never got to this one! i can certainly see why it's such a classic for the genre, and i did like the overall story and thought it was pretty clever. however, the writing style wasn't for me. it was blandly written, and the point of view was entirely external, so only the appearances, actions, and spoken words of the characters are described. this certainly adds to the mystery, as you don't know what the characters are thinking, but i do prefer to be inside the characters' minds. it felt more like a movie script because of it, and i do plan on watching the 1941 film adaptation, which i may actually like more.

#2025 #review #very casual review...just my thoughts :•)