I’m about to finish Jude the Obscure today actually. I really don’t understand why people say it’s so depressing, maybe something in the final pages will change my mind. I’ve been in a reading slump and am just going to power through this book.

I think it was by Karin Slaughter, not entirely sure which book. I read maybe a chapter or a little more and the writing just made me stop immediately. I got about 50 pages into The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and couldn’t keep going, something about the writing voice seemed very off to me.

History of the Rain by Niall Williams:

“We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.”

“It’s because people are so perishable. That’s the thing. Because for everyone you meet there is a last moment, there will be a last moment when your hand slips from theirs, and everything ripples outwards from that, the last firmness of a hand in yours that every moment after becomes a little less firm until you look down at your own hand and try to imagine just what it felt like before their hand slipped away. And you cannot. You cannot feel them. And then you cannot quite see them, there’s blurry bits, like you’re looking through this watery haze, and you’re fighting to see, you’re fighting to hold on, but they are perishing right before your eyes, and right before your eyes they are becoming that bit more ghost.”

I get really tired of reading series very quickly and have a bad habit of starting series and taking forever (or never) getting back to them. I stopped reading the stormlight archive because I couldn’t take any more of the writing style. I stopped a song of ice and fire at a feast for crows because George won’t ever finish the series at this rate. Most recently I finished McCarthy’s final duology The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy. I still keep thinking of the ending nearly every day

I started The Stand at the beginning of 2020 lol it added such a nice feeling to the creepy factor.