hello cindy heres lunch and i finally read ur 2023 book review bc i accidentally fell down a wikipedia hole abt doomed arctic explorations and didnt want to fall asleep after that! u managed to read (no joke. last year was Bad reading wise) ten times as many books as me ..... thats so cool u read such a wide variety!!
i originally kept the tab open bc i remember u raving abt young mungo at some point and thought u might have read it last year but that must've been the year before anyway i bought the book recently even tho i havent started yet so! consider me influenced! also im bummed to find out that the author of station eleven is a zionist apparently bc id been planning to read that one this year but well we move! i have so much other stuff on my tbr i wont run out anytime soon rip
speaking of tbr i need to go over ur list again and write down which ones i want to read myself bc so many sounded really good!!! however i also have been cured of any desire to ever read babel i fear bc that just sounds like such a drag page count wise -_-
anyway ive personally only read like 3 of the books but it was super cool to read abt ur perspective! re: the wicker king i honestly do not remember a lot (i read it back when it came out) except that it left a v strong impression on me but honestly yea fair! also i read it in translation so that mightve influenced some bits probably
never let me go: i read that book in 2013 and i remember that i fi ished it on a public bus and i broke down crying so hard that other passengers asked me if i was okay 😭 so i'll never touch that book again or watch the film bc i got my share of emotional damages lol but i really liked the writing and as u said, i think the love triangle was way less obtrusive than ud imagine (but also. i just found it so fucking cruel???? kathy wtf) but omg now i just remember that era of tumblr when everyone and their mum did fancast gifsets of the marauders from the terf wizard books and i cant prove it but i feel like half of all andrew garfield l*pin gifs came from that movie oh my god....
and finally! werther! im always so surprised when ppl read old german books like why would u do that to urself if u dont have to suffer thru highschool german class like we did.... i am a devoted goethe hater (fuck faust all my homies hate faust) but i have to admit werther was a quick and easy read (as u put it "accessible classics"!!!) which was way better than goethes later works (again. fuck faust). i lowkey still find it insane that this book literally inspired both a fashion trend of ppl dressing like werther bc he is So pathetic. truly setting new lows. and also inspired a wave of imitation suicides???? did they all have lead poisoning back then. why would u do this. also sorry if u didnt know abt that, shit o.o
anyway im so sorry for rambling for ???? very long in ur inbox without any real point to get to except: i really liked reading that list! i hope u read lots of good books again this year!! pls never stop posting pics of ur cats!! take care & good night !!