Emotionally devastating books are my jam. I think it’s because I’m a total empath and have also been through a lot of trauma. I want to relate to emotions so when a book is sad but beautiful I feel it in a very real way. I guess I have a lot of trouble knowing how to feel my own emotions so doing it through someone else’s - characters in books or tv shows give me a vehicle to feel things such as grief or sadness or anger. I have also done a lot of work on myself so it’s not like I’m using these books as some kind of unhealthy way of processing. I loved A little Life, and although it was very trauma heavy, it takes place in this beautiful backdrop of friendship and love in New York, there’s so much more to the book than trauma.

I have never forgiven Christian for making that beep boop beep noise at the donut woman in London when he was paying. I cringed so hard it made my kneecaps itch.