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[simonandgarfunkie]

HIII MIA 17 and 25 for the 📚 asks also how did u like giovanni’s room !!!

EEEEEE HIIIII EILA HOW ARE YOUUUU <333 

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

it took me a while to get through the vanishing half by brit bennett but ended up lovinggg it, also i thought 2001: a space odyssey was going to be boring but i loved the way it read (honourable mention to the joy luck club too!)

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

i originally started this year with to read 24 books/5,000 pages (on storygraph you can set a goal for books and a goal for pages is what i mean) but 24 ended up being too much so depending on how next year goes i’m reaching for 15 books and 5,000 pages ^-^

alsooo i liked giovanni’s room!! i just finished it today so i’m still trying to gather my thoughts around it but i loved the way the characters and their complexities were written!! the more i think about how the internal turmoil was described the more i love it because it the turmoil literally sounded the same way i do when i spend too much time alone in my room

but also i was reading this actively trying to not relate my own experience to the characters because of those quotes i’ll paraphrase of reading being a door, not a mirror (fran lebowitz) and doing a disservice to the characters by inhabiting them with your own emotions (toni morrison)