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5, 15, 28, 37 I was gonna be evil and do one every 10 for the book asks but then I gave up bc there were so many

well well well. you come to me in my ask box, on this, the day of my daughter's weddin[GUNSHOTS]

5.) something in fiction that reads like poetry

this is an excerpt from It by Stephen King that i have pinned to my wall (as you have probably noticed since it's right in front of my desk lol) that i read last year and it gutted me and left me for dead on the side of the road:

So you leave, and there is an urge to look back, to look back just once as the sunset fades, to see that severe New England skyline one final time – the spires, the Standpipe, Paul with his axe slung over his shoulder. But it is perhaps not such a good idea to look back – all the stories say so. Look what happened to Lot’s wife. Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever after all the way around – and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.

You leave and you leave quick when the sun starts to go down, he thinks in this dream. That’s what you do. And if you spare a last thought, maybe it’s ghosts you wonder about…the ghosts of children standing in the water at sunset, standing in a circle, standing with their hands joined together, their faces young, sure, but tough…tough enough, anyway, to give birth to the people they will become, tough enough to understand, maybe, that the people they will become must necessarily birth the people they were before they can get on with trying to understand simple mortality. The circle closes, the wheel rolls, and that’s all there is.

You don’t have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever, love with them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository all you would become.

Children I love you. I love you so much.

So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away.

idk if that's what the question was asking for but it is poetry TO ME

15.) a book rec you really enjoyed

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Steifvater

this was a rec from @cherryisgone that i absolutely adored!! this author writes so beautifully, and this book read almost like a modern folktale. plus, it's about miracles (kind of like encanto, if that can be a selling point to you, dear friend 👀). i read like half of it while sitting by the beach one cloudy weekend and really enjoyed it

28.) a book you wish you could read as a beginner again

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

ok i don't actually want to reread war and peace. i think i'd impale myself on a bendy straw before i ever did that (especially since i read this as a challenge to myself and, perhaps you can recall, dear friend, spent most of the last two months of junior year preoccupied with while nobody in our classes would shut up :))))) ). the only reason i would even remotely want to reread it is because i have such a better grasp on the background of the events in this book, of the writer himself, and just the culture and society of Russia itself than i did in high school when i basically knew Nothing. not to say i'm an expert ofc, because i sure as hell am not, but i do have a lot more context for it and feel like i would understand it on a better level now than i did then

but alas, i'm not willing to put myself through that again :) listening to natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812 is all i need to get through the rest of this life i think

37.) your favourite heist book

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

you asked this just so i would have to admit you were right, huh 😔

tbh i don't think i've actually read a lot of heist books. this is the only one i could really think of, but still, it would beat out any others. also, this book has Matthias Helvar, and that's not something other heist books can say

anyway, thank you for stopping by bestie :3 here's to many more books in our future :D 💜💜💜