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Rejecting reading trends in the age of readers’ aesthetics and BookTok recommendations. In all likelihood, everyone is sick and tired of hearing about TikTok’s tendencies of making microtrends, encouraging overconsumption, and promoting low-quality content as much as everyone is tired of “just let people enjoy things” side of the

Can one’s trauma be as big as to manifest itself physically, garrotting, scalding, and destroying everyone around? What if the trauma is not real? What if nothing is real? Or if the real is nothing? When a family of four, in hopes of getting their lives together, moves into

I am yet to get used to the fact that this summer on the small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea is colder than in Siberia. Still, despite it being cold compared to all other summers that I’ve spent here, the thermometer shows more than thirty degrees

One pill, two pills, Red pill, Blue pill White pill, Blue pill, Old pill, New pill It was as if nothing besides the river existed, – ...

* Do you hear voices? * No * Then he's completely mentally healthy. Go away now [Two hours earlier: "I have to go, I have to go, I have to go now", tears, trembling, music and laughter are getting louder. Stay clam, stay calm, stay calm; please, don'

genre: #modern classics #mystery #historical first publication: 1988 my rating: 9/10 FILENAME: Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco (444 KB, 2:22 AM) Shh…, don't tell anyone. Incognito ergo sum (does it mean "Moonlight"?: * Nascosto fra la gente/Senza un'identità). "Did you know

genre: #contemporary #literary first publication: March 10, 2015 my rating: 7/10 dit dit dash dit dash dash dash dash dit dit dit dit Lying on a glacier going through the ocean of ordeal; chewing on broken glass; feeling the slow tightening of the rusty screws of emotions, which dissect

genre: #classics #historical first publication: 1965 my rating: 6.5/10 Yet another amphibolic book review, or Stoner by John Williams. The good. The main character. The complexity, the drama (which, in fact, is more of a tragedy), the emotions. The bad and the ugly. Murphy's law. The

genre: #contemporary #literary first publication: September 1, 2011 my rating: 9/10 A capite, mea culpa, I don't know what to start with. In the begging was the Word and my wish to read this book, so will start with that. The peak through the f-hole of an