struggling to find a book i can read next (i have 100+ unread books on my ereader and some on my shelf)

We agree, right, that well-written novels about people wanting, embracing, suffocating inside, or wasting love are literary evocations of lives we have not lived, but for which we can feel empathy.

I don't understand why replacing "love" with "fear" in that sentence somehow invalidates "literary".

did some spring cleaning of my books today. it made me realise how i've purchased more than i've read any of my books, and i'm still borrowing more books from both physically and through libby (it doesn't help that i work in a library lol). perhaps it's finally time i tackle my books 😮‍💨

Oh good, my new kobo can also play audiobooks, that'll be useful.

*spends ten minutes scrolling through titles that are largely cosey fantasy, paranormal romance & Terry Pratchett, or book 2 in a series where book 1 is 30 quid*

tired tired tired just so fucking tired of my mind and body

A Christmas (and early birthday) book haul!

I've shown you mine, do show me yours!

Christmas is for bookish wishlists coming true, I say!

I'm about to finish this book and I don't know whatI wanna read next. It's been so long since I've gotten into fiction but I'm on a roll.

how do you let your loved ones know that there has always been a demon inside me eating me alive and telling me that all this pain will go away once some form of self-inflicted harm has been established and that every little thing still makes me want to kill myself

i've been so easily triggered by literally nothing and everything at the same time i just want to scream at the world and shut myself out from everyone

i dont know how this platform will hold the heaviness inside me but i hope it spills parts of me that has been suppressed 🧿