Mine’s The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Thick books never stopped me from reading nonstop before, but there are entries in the book that just has me stopping and taking time to mull things over.

Also, sharing this excerpt: “Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”

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    1 year ago

    “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Tolstoy

    I’ve had this book for 25 years now. Still haven’t read it. It doesn’t make my heart excited looking at it. I’m very afraid to pick it up.