I JUST REALLY FUCKING LOVE ALLEGORIES, OKAY?

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Anna Akhmatova on Mikhail Bulgakov

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mswyrr:

• She didn’t write it.

(But if it’s clear she did the deed…)

• She wrote it, but she shouldn’t have. (It’s political, sexual, masculine, feminist.)
• She wrote it, but look what she wrote about. (The bedroom, the kitchen, her family. Other women!)
• She wrote it, but she wrote only one…

You know that moment when you’re reading a book and you just have to stop and bite your lip and squeal or sigh or close your eyes and wrinkle your nose and forehead and press the book against your heart and just like sit there and try to soak up the gorgeous literature via osmosis?

That’s my favorite part of reading. 

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just finished ‘On Beauty’.  

Christ.  I feel bereft now.

Right, on to ‘Wise Children’ which I was leant in MARCH and started reading and then real life got in the way, so I shall restart it now and give it back when I’m back in Cardiff.  C’mon Angela Carter, I’m rooting for you.  

"The strength of her daughter’s burgeoning will, the adolescent intensity of it, was something they were both discovering together, year on year. Kiki felt herself a whetstone that Zora was sharpening herself against."

‘On Beauty’, Zadie Smith (pg 198)

I’ve never really read a book about race before ‘On Beauty’.

Isn’t that just bloody awful?

I’m a well-read, 18-year-old English literature student and yet I don’t think I’ve ever read something that deals with the experience of being black and is written by a person of colour.  Why?  I don’t know really.  I mean, I’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird and I’ve read stuff about slavery, but it isn’t the same thing.

This is fascinating.  And it isn’t even primarily about race, it’s about relationships and love and families and mess, but race is such a massive, underlying part of it. 

God.  This book is incredible.  It’s so perfect it hurts to read.  

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cinderellainrubbershoes:

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race—that rarely do I simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant….I am haunted by humans.”

-Death (The Book Thief by Markus Zusak)

GODDAMN I DO NOT NEED TO CARRY A CINDER BLOCK OF SAD AROUND ALL DAY

Oh this is such an incredible picture!

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