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p.s. READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘸? 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘭𝘦, 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯’ 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦

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The reason we write fiction is because it’s so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

Kurt Vonnegut (via writingdotcoffee)

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I've read/re-read since 2022 started

Classics: Orlando: A biography _Virginia Woolf Medea _Euripides Wuthering Heights _Emily Brontë Pride and Prejudice _Jane Austen The Secret History _Donna Tartt Fictions: Circe _Madeline Miller The Song of Achille _Madeline Miller Six of Crows _Leigh Bardugo Perks of Being a Wallflower _Stephen Chbosky Trials of Appollo- The Hidden Oracle _Rick Riordan Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief _Rick Riordan Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda _ Becky Albertalli The Five People You Meet in Heaven _Mitch Albom Non-Fictions: Man's Search For Meaning _Viktor e. Frankl

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✨Masterlist✨

Books I’ve read since 2022 started

Book Reviews📚

Call Me By Your Name

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I didn’t particularly enjoyed reading call me by your name. Hear me out.

 Just a quick intro of the book, Call Me by Your Name is a gay romance novel written by André Aciman. Aciman’s writing engulfs readers in lucid and coherent romantic realities that take readers on a time warped exploration of love, sex, and sexual identities. Call me by your name is a book that revolves around Elio, a teenage boy, who develops sexual and romantic feelings for Oliver, his father’s temporary assistant. Throughout their forbidden relationship, Elio discovers his sexual orientation, and tries to come to terms with it. From a perspective of a mentally immature person who has fallen into a toxic relationship, we get to know more about how people are manipulated. I think that this book’s main message is ‘the definition of a relationship’, because that’s the only possible message, if it’s about a problematic relationship. And here are my thoughts after spending a hundred dollars on this book. (disclaimer: i do not hate this book, just that i feel like someone needs to raise awareness to this) No matter how much I tried to justify the relationship between Elio and Oliver, or how the author ‘engulfs readers in lucid and coherent romantic realities’, I am unable (and never will be able) to enjoy reading this book. Firstly, there were absolutely no warnings about the huge amounts of explicit content in the book. At the back of the book, there were comments describing the book’s content as “naked”, which I interpreted as a metaphor for how ‘authentic’ the book is. However, as I soon discovered, the word “naked” was meant to be taken literally. Although I honestly did not understand most of the book, I still felt extremely uncomfortable while reading this book. Aciman’s detailed depiction of Elio as a 17-year-old minor having sexual relations with Oliver, a grown man, disgusts me, as Aciman seemed to glorify pedophilic relations. I know that the age of consent is 14 in Italy, and the relationship between them is technically legal, but being legal doesn't mean being ethical. Moreover, Aciman being a straight man just generally disgusts me. Although this book is extremely popular and praised for its LGBTQ+ representation, I, as a part of the LGBTQ+ community, thought this was extremely inappropriate. Not only does this glorify predatory relationships, but also portrays LGBTQ+ relationships in a harmful manner due to Elio and Oliver’s problematic age difference and Oliver’s manipulation of a minor who does not know better. 

Overall, call me by your name is just completely overrated.