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This is one of my original characters, I intend to post more in the future, my trait is not so good, but I think it has its charm, this character is called Maggie and maybe in the future she will become one of the characters in a comic strip that I intend to do called Sunbean County, in the style of calvin and hobbes, showing normal and critical situations of a suburban society in the interior of the United States that takes elements from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.

I might act like a nerd but white nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky and flowers of buffoonery by Dazai Osamu are finally here! so excited to read white nights again since I already listened to it from an audiobook.

Don't call me out like that. 🤓

only a chashmish will understand the hyperventilating and mind boggling panic attack you get when you accidentally misplace your specs–

So it took me like seven hundred years to find a proper lock/home screen and these are 10 of the 15 I found... they’re all book related because I’m a nerd. Enjoy maybe?

These are the other 5 of the 15...

Absent-Minded Man by Jerome K. Jerome

This is a humorous story about a man named McQuae who is inattentive to anything around him. He can’t remember invitation details, appointments and even the women he were engaged to. However, when he finally gets to marry a jolly woman named Leena, his friend, the writer thinks that it won’t last long as he will forget about her too. After a considerable time, the writer unexpectedly meets his old friend McQuae, drenched in water on a rainy day. McQuae as always informs that he has moved to the new place with Leena and has forgotten all about it. The writer very calmly takes his friend to a solicitor and finally restores him to his wife.

The story is hilarious. Some of the conversations made me laugh out loud. The first part of the story was narrated in second person, which is the rarest in English literature. This is the only story I’ve read which has this style of writing. So, I enjoyed learning something new.

I didn’t like the fact that the character of Leena was mostly in the shadow of her husband, McQuae, the protagonist of the story. Although she was explained as a cheerful woman, we don’t see her express any such action.

If I could change anything from the story I would have added more detailed information regarding Leena. So that the readers can have a clear idea of how she was able to live with a man like McQuae for so long.

Other than the aforementioned point, I found the story genuinely amusing. It shows that how absent mindedness can put someone in absurd situations. I, myself, often get distracted in many occasions. Now, I have started to focus more on my surroundings. This story has taught me a fine lesson.

I’ve actually wrote this for an assignment where I was supposed to write about a short story I liked. But unfortunately, the teacher is making us write a review on the story SHE tells us. I was so excited about this assignment in the beginning. Now, I’m devastated.

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

I wanna live in a cute cottage somewhere where it's quiet <3 and where I can sit outside on a blanket and read under the beautiful clouds while drinking tea...

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I want to paint the side of my copy of The Spirit Bears its Teeth

my form of selfcare is eating ice cream straight outta the tub and rewatching hannibal at obscene hours

yes i am mentally unstable and yes i do wish i could be hugged by him like this, what about it?

I believe in nerd kid supremacy.  I know they're socially awkward but they're real smart to give you unexpected kisses. Hold your hand secretly between your classes. Look up to you from their fat ass books. Help you academically. Try their best to impress you at everything. Afterall, nerd kids are the coolest to do so.

Reading tip for when you’re reading something educational (self growth, skill based etc)

When you start your self development journey / want to take it even higher, most of us turn to reading books or articles. We take notes and highlight the areas that we found impactful, we remember those points for a couple of days and then boom - we forget.

books are such a wealth of information but it’s not possible to read every single book you’ve read once multiple times.

you might find it frustrating that you can’t seem to remember all that information when you need to, or you keep racking your brains trying to remember exactly where you had read that particular insight.

here’s a method to help you out.

If you have a kindle / read online, make a Word doc/ pages doc of all the things you’ve highlighted. Copy the highlighted areas, which would be areas that you found hopefully/ intriguing/ interesting, and paste them on the word doc. Use only one document for all your notes of different books and every month or so, take about 30 minutes to rapidly go through them. if you read physical books, take a photo of the sentence/ paragraph that you liked, crop it out so that the other stuff isn’t there, and put that photo in the document.

this allows for a couple of things - information isn’t lost when you finish reading the book. Sometimes we find the solution to a problem too early and when the problem crops up, we don’t remember that we had already found the answer. Two, it allows for revision and three, you may see that with time, the way you understood that particular point changes.

this is not for fictional or fantasy books - this is for books that talk about self development, marketing, sales, technical know how, etc. Stuff that you should remember and would impact your progress positively.

have a couple memes

I left one of my books open and my brother wanted to place it somewhere else because he was cleaning. The only thing he found to use as a bookmark was a sock (from the ones whose pair got lost in the Narnia wardrobe years ago)

I taught him well🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

The Madman's Librabry by Edward Brooke-Hitching

This has to be one of the most amazing and interesting books i own. Please buy it! It is an incredible introduction to the most extraordinary books in the world with fabulous pictures.