#tough read

[retiredteabag]

Smau of the Reader randomly calling the jjk men a cringy nickname?

Ahhhh forgot to post this! The smau is coming tomorrow

[grbambi63]

GEORGE RUSSELL INTERVIEW: Why I'm paying my parents back £1.5m for th…

GEORGE RUSSELL INTERVIEW: Why I'm paying my parents back £1.5m for th…

[meandhisjohn]

Finished "Ten Days" by @engazed

One of the best stories I have ever read.

It's a psychological thriller of the highest level!

Thank you to @free-martinis and

@safedistancefrombeingsmart

for the rec and thanks to @dmellieon for taking care of me during the reading.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[shelfquotes]

“A victorious leader plans for many eventualities before the battle; a defeated leader plans for only a few. Many options bring victory, few options bring defeat, no options at all spell disaster.”

—The Art of War; Sun Tzu

[shelfquotes]

“And I wasn’t old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”

ー Uprooted; Naomi Novik

[shelfquotes]

“His quality of detachment was peculiar to himself, and I knew that we might continue thus, without speaking, throughout the meal and it would not matter. There would be no sense of strain.”

ーRebecca; Daphne du Maurier

[wisdomfountain-blog]

First Memory by Louise Gluck Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was-- for what I was: from the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

[alwaysarandomthought]

I Don't Understand

I have started on a new book, and have been told about how much depth there is to it, and true enough, after the first chapter, i set the book down and said to myself "I don't understand". and of course, at first this was frustrating. Expected and understandable, but frustrating none the less. But then I suddenly became rather happy, because I did not understand anything. I came to this conclusion that not understanding can be amazing, because that is the first step. You can't just understand something instantly, so even a true and proper understanding starts as no understanding at all. It made me happy, because this means there is no reasons to feel weighted down, or despair that I will never understand this book, because even the most adept reader started without understanding what the hell they were about to read.