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I AM LATE TO THE GAME BUT I JUST FINISHED READING MADELINE MILLER’S CIRCE 🥲
I’m definitely feeling all the feelings, as it was a long and dragged out journey (even though I was thoroughly hooked before I read the first words) because of work and yenno - my mental health lol.
It was so so soooooo beautifully written. The imagery and details were literally AMA-ZA-ZING 🤩✨
A physical embodiment of a female experience/journey of womanhood; and how figuring out and finding oneself can feel like an eternity. It also perfectly captured the melancholic, yet beautiful fear and joy that comes with living, and how worth it it is to go through all of it.
Circe is probably the MOST likable character of all time 🥲😭😭❤️❤️🥺
Her bravery in the face of danger
Her curiosity and wonder
Her appreciative spirit for simplicity
Her humility
Her steadfastness and patience
Her playful spirit
Demur yet confident
+ TELEMACHUS is the BIGGEST WALKING GREEN FLAG OUT THERE OMG 💚
So if you are reading this and you haven’t read Circe by Madeline Miller yet, please do yourself a favor and go read it!!!
And if you have read it before — read it again hehehehehehhe
Some of my fave quotes:
“I was too wild to feel shame. It was true. I would not just uproot the world, but tear it, burn it, do any evil I could …”
“But make him shiver…then you will hear from him”
“Whatever you do, I wanted to say, do not be too happy. It will bring down fire on your head. I said nothing, and let her dance.”
“My whole life I had waited for tragedy to find me. I never doubted that it would”
“Despite your wet-mouse weeping, I saw how you would not be ground into the earth.”
. “Timidity creates nothing” — this one definitely struck a nerve lol
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
“You have been tame your whole life, and now you will be sorry. Yes father, yes father — see what it gets you”
“As it turned out, I did kill pigs that night after all”
“Tear down, I thought. Tear down and build again”
“Death’s Brother is the name poets give to sleep” ****
“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none”
“I cannot guard against shadows. Give me something to face and fight”
“You do not know what I can do”
“Then child, make another.”
“Such is the folly of humanity. Is it not our human tragedy that some men must be beaten like donkeys before they will see reason?”
“I lifted my hands in blessing and gave my son to the world” — I LEGIT CRIED READING THIS😭😭 made me think of my mom
“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that me be crushed in a moment’s carelessness. If I had believed it, I no longer did” —WOOHOO GIRL POWER 😈
“‘You are wise,’ he said. ‘If it is so,’ I said, ‘it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes’”
“‘I must tell you, all my past is like today, monsters and horrid no one wants to hear.’ … ‘I want to hear’ he said.” - bitch I SWOONED
“The next sentence should be: let us go together” — :3 I cannot
“ ‘I have not pressed you,’ he said, ‘ and I still will not. I know there are reasons you cannot answer me. But if–’ He stopped. ‘I want you to know, if you go to Egypt, if you go anywhere, I want to go with you.’” - AHHHHHHHHHHHHH WTF 😳🤯😱😶🌫️🥵🥴😮💨
“He had never met a god who enjoyed their divinity less.”
“‘Then we will go back. We will go back until you are satisfied.’ It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it would make you happy, I will go with you.” —😭😭😭🥰. Crying, screaming, puking
“We would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world”
“This time you are not alone” - I cried ngl
“Circe, he says, it will be alright… He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.” - 😢😭😭😭
“But I see now [gods] are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands”
adam carlsen and olive smith.
they are SO cute, now i want an adam carlsen in my life for buying me food every wednesday 😫
taylor swift releasing midnights will be amazing for the literary community as we will have more songs from her to associate with book characters and suffer even more 🫶
delilah green and claire sutherland.
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! 🏳️🌈
elsie hannaway and jack smith.
changed my life and made me seriously question for a few moments if having a hedgehog was really such a bad idea
call me delusional but as somebody who has had many experiences with people, while having people-pleasing tendencies, I find novels, short stories, books, and just stories, in general, that dive into the psychology and especially romance novels that present a healthy love with all the challenges as affirmation it's okay not to be satisfied with the bare minimum, just because that's the current norm.
it doesn't only bring me comfort, but it lets me stand on the ground firmly and say 'No, those are my boundaries and I will not be satisfied with less, simply because you're unable to give me my enough and meet my needs, and I'd say that's really important, too.
So, if anybody tries to ignore and invalidate your reading preferences or even poke fun at you, just because you're reading romance and not Dostoyevski or Tolstoy, the rEaL LiTeRaTUrE, they don't understand the definition of range and, it’s not on you to teach them, especially if they are not willing to listen.
example:
range -> variety
[countable, usually singular] a variety of things of a particular type
Range of something: Librarians need a broad range of skills.
Even if you only like reading cute, love stories — so what?
If you're pissed about somebody enjoying something, you should ask yourself — Why?
Why are you so incredibly bothered by another person enjoying their read?
Reading is meant to be enjoyable, depending on how you define enjoyable — whether that be crying because of a sad ending, jumping on the bed because 'They finally kissed!' or simply staring blankly at the book, in disbelief.
so, to end my chaotic rambling — romance books are not to be dissected as classical literature. They were never written for that. If you want to, you can, of course. But, if you're one of those people who will trash somebody just because they're enjoying a cute love story, take a chill pill.
Not everything has to be serious.
Not everything is so plain in the open.
Not everything is explicitly shown.
It doesn't have to be.
It can just exist, and you can see how you relate to it.
And, if it helps — it helps.
HE’S MINE!!! 😤 I mean- never mind 😔
enemies to lovers>>>
i’m really enjoying this book :)
what's the point of romance if they aren't gonna kiss on a battlefield with blood and tears on theirface and the relief of knowing they've made it out alive
Caraval by Stephanie Garber, page 55
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.” ― Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns
i’ve been reading fantasy books since last year and i always feel something ... empty or kind of missing within me. as i read Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter,
i just knew it.
i knew why i was feeling weird whenever i read non-romantic (or fantasy w/ romance but it isn’t a major part) books. it’s because i long to feel the happy and cute-ish and fluttery smtg when i read romance.
WESLEY BENNETT, HERE I COME
just— look at that. back then, i used to read books like this. with banging, hot guys and too-good, innocent, cute girls. and tropey romances with the typical grumpy x sunshine, girl-hates-boy-but-boy-is-secretly-in-love-with-girl, childhood enemies, etc. AAAAAAA
LOOK AT THE PLAYLIST HERE
I
AM
SO
IN
LOVE
sometimes I find myself relating to male romance leads and then suddenly I get the urge to jump off a bridge
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I’m trying to get into more romance novels, but it’s hard narrowing down ALL the options! Any recommendations?? If it helps, I’m currently reading Love & Other Words by Christina Lauren and I’m loving the wholesome love story with all the cozy vibes!
One last thing: please, any book rec but Colleen Hoover, I’m tired of seeing those books EVERYWHERE and I have no interest in reading them at all!!