valerieslatte

18| med student | literature, trees and cats

[only-cat-memes]

[vannat30]

[pollyj]

Standing Female Deity

Pakistan, 7th century

This figure was part of a large halo.

[vannat30]

Post cards from my recent trip 💌

[inkskinned]

i love you vaccines i love you research i love you reading the book instead of having chatgpt summarize it i love you critically thinking rather than reacting to a headline i love you investigating the source material i love you science i love you math even though you are personally my enemy (math/yn slowburn) i love you writing even though you try to stab me a lot i love you Experts in Your Field i love you Using The Brain

[angelicdewdrop]

[vannat30]

Literally me.

[the-catholic-inkling-deactivate]

My hobbies include reading, writing and doing neither of those things

[purelypretentious-hana]

You want me to make friends in college? The thing that killed Bunny Corcoran? No thanks

[vannat30]

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree 💌🏔️🌲🌺

[vannat30]

Rating some of the books I've read! {My favourites hehe}

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (6.5/10)

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald (7.5/10)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (9.5/10)

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (10/10) {I cried}

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (8/10)

A Room Of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (10/10)

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (8/10)

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky (9/10)

Based on this list, what books would you suggest to me?

[vannat30]

I recently finished 'The Secret History' by Donna Tart and all I have to say is:

“Smart lad, to slip betimes away / From fields where glory does not stay,

And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose.”

— A.E. Housman, “To an Athlete Dying Young”

[nyancrimew]

whoever invented beds was a fucking genius im just all cozied up in here like u don't even know how cozy i am

[coffeeacademia]

being alive is like,, being so full of love and so full of loss at the same time. a lot to carry around either way.