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dddssswww1991

An in love 34‑year‑old tattooed elder emo metalhead with a pop‑punk heart. Student mental health nurse fuelled by coffee and thriller books. Halloween is a state of mind and my TBR is eternal.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Chalk Man
The Midnight Feast
The Puppet Show (Washington Poe, #1)
Rabbit Hole: A Novel
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    Attempted to Revisit Wuthering Heights… and Realised My Brain Said “Absolutely Not”

    So, in my early teens I went through that very earnest phase where I decided I was going to read “the classics.” You know, the books you imagine yourself reading in a window seat with the rain gently hitting the window, feeling terribly intellectual and mysterious. Wuthering Heights was one of the first I picked up. I remember powering through it with the sheer stubbornness when I got the pretty ornate cover. I didn’t understand half of what was going on, but I was convinced I was having a profound literary experience. Fast forward to this Winter Reading Challenge, and I thought it would be poetic to revisit it as an adult. Maybe I’d finally appreciate all the nuance, the atmosphere, the gothic intensity. Maybe I’d even understand why everyone insists it’s romantic (still not convinced). I tried. I really did. But my brain took one look at the tangled family trees, the emotional chaos, and the bleak moors and said, “Not today. Not this season. Absolutely not.” It’s not that I dislike the book, I actually remember thinking way back when it’s brilliant in its own wild, stormy way but right now my attention span is built for cosy mysteries, fast paced thrillers, and anything that doesn’t require a flowchart to track who’s related to whom. Wuthering Heights demands a certain mental bandwidth, and mine is currently buffering. So, for now, I’m gently placing it back on the shelf with a respectful nod, and choose something my brain could actually digest. Maybe I’ll try again in a different season, or a different mood, or a different lifetime. Anyone else have a “not right now” classic they keep meaning to revisit but can’t quite face?

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    Attempted to Revisit Wuthering Heights… and Realised My Brain Said “Absolutely Not”

    So, in my early teens I went through that very earnest phase where I decided I was going to read “the classics.” You know, the books you imagine yourself reading in a window seat with the rain gently hitting the window, feeling terribly intellectual and mysterious. Wuthering Heights was one of the first I picked up. I remember powering through it with the sheer stubbornness when I got the pretty ornate cover. I didn’t understand half of what was going on, but I was convinced I was having a profound literary experience. Fast forward to this Winter Reading Challenge, and I thought it would be poetic to revisit it as an adult. Maybe I’d finally appreciate all the nuance, the atmosphere, the gothic intensity. Maybe I’d even understand why everyone insists it’s romantic (still not convinced). I tried. I really did. But my brain took one look at the tangled family trees, the emotional chaos, and the bleak moors and said, “Not today. Not this season. Absolutely not.” It’s not that I dislike the book, I actually remember thinking way back when it’s brilliant in its own wild, stormy way but right now my attention span is built for cosy mysteries, fast paced thrillers, and anything that doesn’t require a flowchart to track who’s related to whom. Wuthering Heights demands a certain mental bandwidth, and mine is currently buffering. So, for now, I’m gently placing it back on the shelf with a respectful nod, and choose something my brain could actually digest. Maybe I’ll try again in a different season, or a different mood, or a different lifetime. Anyone else have a “not right now” classic they keep meaning to revisit but can’t quite face?

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    dddssswww1991 DNF'd a book

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    The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

    The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

    Heather Morris

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    Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

    Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

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    How to Seal Your Own Fate

    How to Seal Your Own Fate

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  • All the Colours of the Dark
    dddssswww1991
    Jan 22, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    I probably would have enjoyed this more if it had not been sold to me as a thriller. It is so much more but because of what I thought, I was a little let down. It is a genre bending book, that has a touch of thriller and crime, and a touch of romance, and spans whole lifetimes. I'd still recommend this book to anyone to read, but if you are hoping for a whole thriller, it isn't that, and that is what let it down for me. I actually think it is a well executed piece of writing, and I did enjoy it.

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