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i'm a tumblr girl living in a tumblr world

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forgot about tumblr. back at my shit again baby

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finished reading Freud. why is the answer to everything sex.

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where is my poor wet russian literature reading boyfriend????? it's not in the package??? where are they???? i cant find them in the wild???? theyre not in the shady corners of the neighborhoods???? the internet is such a scam

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Just finished reading the Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller! It was my first book I've ever annotated and it turned out really pretty and very useful! :))

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Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami (Book Review)

Before I begin, I read this on a retreat, some time ago, and only getting into writing the review now (better late than never), so please do call me out if I have some inaccuracies.

Anyways. Norwegian Wood. This was my first Murakami, and I was pretty surprised to see that it was just... a romance novel. Admittedly, it did have a "deeper layer" to the meaning than just some dime novels, but at the end of the day, it was just a young adult romance novel. Toru is the more introverted main character, while Naoko is the mysterious girl with a complex philosophy. Surprising, right? And the story just played out that on that narrative, finishing with a satisfying but not wholly-satisfying ending. He didn't get the girl, but he did have sex with almost all the major girl characters in the book. That's the whole story. Bam. And the characterization of the women in the story is appalling to see (although some interactions were better than others), and all this elaborate character building just make the women more two-dimensional, and dare I say, stereotypical. Naoko played out to be the classic more-alluded-romantic crush. Midori, although she was my favorite character in all of the book, was obsessed with men and sex to an unnatural, mocking level. Reiko... not sure what to make of her. The whole lesbian narrative was okay? It definitely wasn't expected, I'll say that much. But in summary, all the characters were seemingly "complex" but it just came off as misogyny to me. Toru was just an everyday man, at basis. But he seems to be the most complex character, with his responses of all the... events. I did like his straightforward narrative and honest thinking. However, the reason why I gave this a 5 star was because of its writing. I don't think I ever read a book this fast. It wasn't good, in particular, but its writing was so eccentric I couldn't put it down. I admire the way Murakami writes. If anyone else were to write this, I doubt that it would have this good of a review, but Murakami pulls it off. So, out of admiration, I had to give this book a 4.5. (+0.5 for all the classic rock references.)

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the pics of my may tbrs :)

+ 3 eBooks

(totally did not post about the may tbrs before... cough cough)

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May To-Reads

- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

- Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud

- The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

- The People’s Republic of Neverland by Robb Johnson

- Heidi by Johanna Spyri

- The Stranger by Albert Camus

- An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth by Bertrand Russel

I might add some more later on, but currently I’m just tryna put something out there so that I can keep track of what to look forward to. Recommendations are always welcome!

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Just finished Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami!

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how much do you want to bash christianity?

yevgeny: yes

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my april to-reads!!

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sorry but why is this so funny

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Just finished To The Lighthouse (by Virginia Woolf) and here were some of my fav quotes

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people romanticizing Kafka (out of everyone out there) will never not be funny to me

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Heyya! I’m a bit too late to write an intro, but better late than never.

Made this blog to talk about books, mainly classics, crime, and non fiction (philosophy & anthropology and such). I love sharing little book quirks and get exposure to new books and discuss about em! I read mostly English literature (trying to get into some French and maybe Russian?). Trying to keep an aesthetic as well, but that's failing miserably.

Sorry if my writing seems a bit choppy, I have a hard time talking with people :(

Love all the annotations and tea cups <3

I’m also learning French (about A2 right now) so I can read Proust :)

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Currently on chapter thirteen of “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

All these lines hit hard

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I was so excited that To The Lighthouse became public domain this year until I actually opened the digital copy...