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TBR:

The Scarlet Pimpernel Series

Frankenstein

Pride and Prejudice

Persuasion

Northanger Abbey

The man in the iron mask

Howl's Moving Castle

The Count Of Monte Cristo

The Hatter's Castle

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Good Omens: Update.

Finished!

I can't believe it's all over. And in a way, it isn't ;).

Truly, I feel like it's an endless story. I have so many thoughts that I cannot possibly convey. What really impressed me was the authors talking about one another at the end. They both feel so strongly about one another, and the way the book was written makes it a masterpiece to be loved for all the wrong reasons. When you read Good Omens, you don't just love the narration (which, I may add, is impeccable), you love the fact that it tisnt perfect. It's not ineffable like the ineffable plan. It's something you can tell two people did for fun. And it's a book you read for fun. It's something you personally love. Not as personal as a lover, as personal as a book who's being held together by old, yellow tape that's been dropped in the bath and maybe mud. It's an old friend.

I can't help but think of "Home" when I think of this book. It's got something very familiar about it. After the first few pages, whenever I opened the book and saw the text, the texture of the pages, the smell, I just felt safe and felt like there's was nothing to worry about anymore. It left me with an easy heart and an open mind. I can proudly say that, in the time that it took me to finish this book, a month, I e grown up and gotten younger at the same time.

I hope that more people read it, and find themselves at home in the book as I did.

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Good Omens: Update.

Page 376 - Sunday (The first day of the rest of their lives.) 91% Read.

If I have to say anything before the last chapter and before I finish this book, it's that, like any good book that I've ever read, it changed me. I can't wait to finish it. I'm already feeling bittersweet, and I have a whole chapter left.

In a way, I don't want it to end. It has been enjoyable, and truthfully I feel like it has helped me, not just entertained me. But there's many more books to read.

Here's to the final chapter. Let's see how it goes.

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Good Omens: Update.

Page: 188 - Saturday. 45% Read.

I really want to keep on reading. It becomes addicting. I was flipping through the pages of this new chapter that I'll begin to read to find where to put my bookmark as a goal. When I saw how long this is I said, this is it. This is the big meat of the book.

But, I want to talk about Friday a bit as well. We got introduced to a very nice character by the name of Newt. I will do anything to protect him too. I thought the pacing was still strong, it definitely didn't drop in quality. It didn't shove useless information down my throat. It was a very okay chapter. It didn't fill me up with excitement like the previous ones, but it was a nice chapter to sort of read and relax. Lest the nipples part makes you laugh while you're drinking something hot...

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Good Omens: Update

Page: 151, Friday. 36% read.

Thoughts? Adam is amazing and I'll do anything to protect him.

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Good Omens: Update.

Page 126 - Thursday. 30% Read.

Yes hello everyone, and welcome to a other update. School as well as some other things have been keeping me from being able to read. However, I finally finished another chapter!

I thought this a very strong chapter, part, whatever you want to call it. I especially loved, again, the interaction between Crowley and Azirapahle as well as them bumping into Anathema. It's always nice to dig deeper into Crowley and Azirapahle's friendship. Seeing how different yet very neutrally alike they are. I went into this completely blind, and now, watching the trailer for the show, I can't help but be afraid of them ruining these two characters. But I hope and I trust that they will stay true to how they truly are.

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ancient authors ranked by their validity

homer: the OG greek literature. so valid that the greeks sometimes deified him. had some extremely sexy hexameter verse but does lose points on account of probably not being a real person. 8/10

sappho: EXTREMELY gay and valid. writes beautiful poetry but it is in like, the worst dialect of greek. loses some points because of largely not surviving to the modern day tho. 9/10

aristotle: some kind of misogynist bastard who doesn’t know shit about anything. student of plato which is about the least amount of valid you can be. get fucked 0/10

catullus: just a bisexual disaster trying to live his life and get laid 10/10

caesar: a war criminal and bastard -5/10

cicero: did his best which is very valid but also never shuts up about how cool he is which kinda puts a damper on it. 7/10

vergil: gays? bees? the countryside? this dude’s got it all and more. also has extreme social anxiety for bonus Relatability points 11/10

seneca the younger: stoicism isn’t valid 0/10

petronius: hated nero so much that he not only made fun of nero in his book but he also included a letter about how much he hated nero in his will when nero forced him to commit suicide and that’s pretty sexy 15/10

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Good Omens: Update.

Page 72: "Wednesday".

I didn't have much time to continue reading this amazing book, and when I did get to reading more, I had always forgotten where I left off.

However, the story is easy to understand, with very humorous moments that stick with you, and because of that, it made it easier to continue reading, even after longer breaks, without being too confused as to what is happening.

So far I have to say that the story is very good. I like the way that it's crafted, and I can't wait to see where the authors are going with it. The characters introduced until now have all been enjoyable to read about, and the chemistry between Aziraphale and Crowley is something that doesn't only make me laugh at how relatable they can be, but also giggle at how well crafted the two of them are as characters and partners. They have cute moments with one another that I can personally see myself in with my friends.

The setting of the book makes me extremely nostalgic for times I didn't truly live through. But I am glad to see that Crowley is enjoying the 20th century as much as Lestat is. Personally, I was born 20 years after the early 80's. But I have read so much, I can't help but to relate to Crowley's enthusiasm about technology and this modern era. Everything is written so well in terms of time that I can't help but forget that we are currently in the 21st century. It is so natural to read about, because, of course, it was written then, but also the mastery of description that the author has is very vivid, marked with the always present sense of irony.

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Academia Book Recomendations

And, like, maybe a few movies too 

 The Secret History By Donna Tartt (Obviously!)

Dead Poets Society (Movie and Book)

If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio (Very similiar to TSH, also a personal favorite)

The History Boys by Alan Bennett (A play)

Vicious by V.E. Schwab (I think more superhero oriented? Ive never read it)

A Separate Peace by John Knowles 

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

The Lessons by Naomi Alderman 

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Kill your Darlings (Movie, I hated it)

More Female oriented Academia books 

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler 

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton 

Sleepwalking by Meg Wolizter 

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (okay, only vaguely academic but still a good book)

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

I heard the movie Mona Lisa Smile is good too

A list of some other academic school books 

Feel free to add on to this post. 

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“Sometimes I’d find myself staring at his wrist from which I’d drawn my vampire life, and I would fall into such a stillness that my mind seemed to leave my body, or rather my body to become my mind…”

—

Interview with the Vampire

there’s so much repressed vampire thirst in this quote god louis no wonder lestat was frustrated with you

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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (via uselessatheart)

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romanian books (that are actually worth reading)

aight since im mad

balanta - ion baiesu

cum se slefuiesc diamantele - remus luca

ion - liviu rebreanu

morometii - marin preda

la medeleni - ionel teodoreanu

ciresarii - constantin chirita

vacanta mare - mircea santimbreanu

biserica neagra - anatol baconsky

accidentul - mihail sebastian

mara - ioan slavici

anything sadoveanu

panza de paianjen - cella serghi

ciclul setea muntelui de sare - marin sorescu

enigma otiliei - camil petrescu

amintiri din copilarie - creanga

blaga

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“What are you, an immortal idiot?”

— Daniel to Armand, Queen of the Damned (via morbidromantic)

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Currently Reading: Good Omens - Black Version.

Book progress: Page 34.

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Last book read: The Vampire Lestat.

Rating: 10/10.