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[polyatomics]

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us." --f. kafka

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[invisibleinkk]

i think i'm going to do this!

[polyatomics]

i think you should!

[invisibleinkk]

well i am:]

will you lend me the garcia marquez one when you're done with it?

[polyatomics]

well missus, i would, but it's from the library. i think nats has some gg marquez though, you can always ask her!

[youmyvoicebox]

was on beauty good? i have it but have not started it.

you should read jose saramago. rechael would recommend blindness and i would recommend the year of the death of ricardo reis. i also have all the names and the stone raft, but i've only started the stone raft and just have all the names. but i think you should read something of his! he's superb.

what have been your favorites thus far? your least favorites?

[youmyvoicebox]

also, i totally commend you for doing this. i want to, too, but i'm too far behind! and you're definitely going to make it by december.

[polyatomics]

It is never too late! You don't have to make 100 by the end of the year, you can say by next March 11, 365 days. We can have our always-talked-of book club together.

I really hope I can make it, I am falling a little off track; I wanted to read at least 8 books a month, but last month just was not a good month for me. But I suppose that's what summer breaks and winter breaks are for, right?

[polyatomics]

it didn't really capture my attention. i read it because i have heard wonders about zadie smith and the library did not have white teeth. it reads like a novel, you know? i never got completely engrossed in it.

The History of Love has been no doubt by favorite, followed by Louise's poetry. Least favorites would have to be, well.. none, really, because I wouldn't read a book that didn't interest me.. except the gossip girl books, and Lemony Snicket. But those are really my secret secrets, you know?

[littlemoons]

i want to send you a book, but you can't tell me whether or not you already have it, okay?

[polyatomics]

Yes ma'am. I miss you, sparrow. I keep meaning to write, but you know how it gets. Will you send me your current address?

[polyatomics]

Oh my goodness, History of Love is so so beautiful, all of it reminded me of you.

I haven't read it yet, it sounds lovely! I just bought Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch, do you know anything about it?

[polyatomics]

What are your top ten favorites?

[vivacat]

RILKE IS AMAZING. OH MY GOD.

I just finished reading a book of his poetry, but I want to buy myself a copy of the Duino Elegies just so I can have itttttt :)

[polyatomics]

MMMM i have his Duino Elegies & Sonnets to Orpheus. I love him so incredibly, great minds think alike, eh?