#Just finished The Secret History

[lurkingferalidiot]

The kids yearn for the aesthetics. This comes back to bite them in the ass.

[glorious-destruction]

you have to be at least a little bit gay to be a main character in a donna tartt novel

[sinclarify]

i haven't even finished tsh yet but the fact that there's people out there who genuinely like these characters so much, not within the context of how they're written but in an 'im in love with them way' is really absurd to me because every single one of these characters have filled me at times with the sort of terror and unease that i can only describe as a half-empty convenience store where the lights buzz and drone and are such a pallid shade of yellow that you feel quite sick and it feels like you've entered a realm so disconnected from your own reality that anything could happen and even just the sluggish, weary half-stand of the cashier is an act of hostility and you just want to get out of there as quickly as possible. does that make sense.

[timstokers-autism]

« you were there » said by francis is killing me in every way it can

know why? because it just means a lot

he said that he's not attracted to richard & maybe that's true but he did it cause he needed someone

he felt close to him in some way and this is true

maybe he's really not attracted but still his actions were there to happen he did it because he in some kind of way loved him or at least felt comfortable with

or he just lied

and guess what hurts the most

[obxfiles]

book recommendations like captive prince please???

[oswaldthatendswald]

Heyyyyyyy anyone got any book recommendations for fans of The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir, and What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher? (Current favorite books/series) (I'm going to be travelling a lot the next two weeks and I'm trying to find some new books)

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

1, 4, 21, 25!

1. How many books did you read this year?

127 (according to StoryGraph), but I'm 70% through The Second Sex and will probably finish a handful more before January.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

I really loved Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormorant trilogy and am planning on checking out his other works. I also started reading Naomi Novik and am actively resisting her Napoléonic Wars But With Dragons series (Spinning Silver, her latest release, was really tight, but Uprooted was ... less purposeful? And I don't wanna commit to a ten-book series).

Otherwise, I actually did a lot more branching out to explore authors I've already read books by to confirm if it was a fluke or if I consistently like their work — Colson Whitehead (anything that isn't autobiographical is masterfully written), Donna Tartt (this woman has a chokehold on my SOUL), R.F. Kuang (great ideas though sometimes a bit ambitious for her abilities — but she's growing more powerful). I've read stories from Nghi Vo's Singing Hills series and have enjoyed all of them, but I haven't checked out their other works, so it feels disingenuous to say I love them as an author for now, but I'm certainly open to reading their other works based on this. Oh, and I finally read my first Discworld book, so you could say it's all over for me.

21. Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

lol, not even familiar with those communities.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

My book club friends this year had soft, no-pressure goals of 100 books for the year, so I set that as a passive benchmark for myself. I guess ... reduce the number of books in my to-read pile on StoryGraph? I seem to keep adding more every time I read another book. ^^;

[luetta]

does anyone else, when they look at a pretty person or sneak a glance at a friend when they’re not looking, get a sort of painful twinge in their chest? like the fleeting realisation that your hungry, but it’s in your heart instead? wanting something with more than want, but not knowing why, or how, or what.

imagining their touch, the softest most delicate touch, lasting just a moment. how much it’d make you jump, send lightning through you. and how much you crave it regardless. it’s something you haven’t really had the chance to experience before.

it makes your face run cold with tingles, too. and liquid mercury pouring down your back. and your cheeks burn and your hands feel so … physical. you’re so acutely aware of where and how your hands lie.

when you look at them and think “i just want to feel something positive. i wish you could give me that”

[deadinarussianelevator]

I need more Hoid.

[angelisalynn]

i have a really bad feeling henry is going to c***** s****** and i’m trying to resist the urge to just throw in the towel now because i know i won’t be able to handle it.

[brighteststar707]

I think we need to confiscate the words dark academia from people till they gain reading comprehension skills

[rogue-storm]

One thing about Richard Papen is he will be doing homework

[sinclarify]

anyways it's been five days since i bought the secret history and i have 58 pages left and ummmm. what does one do with their life after finishing it. i think i went through it too fast because its all been over too fast and????? what do i do once its done??? die???

[quarter-lif3crisis]

The Secret History- Donna Tartt (1992)

[noirshitsuji]

richard is babygirl and also a dumb bitch and also he was right about everything

and henry fucking knew it, too

[galpalkirk]

the reason it’s taken me half a year to finish the secret history: