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dearwillqw

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Summer 2025 Readalong
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My Taste
The Book Thief
Fahrenheit 451
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
The Hours
I’m Glad My Mom Died

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  • Metamorphosis
    dearwillqw
    Aug 23, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

    kafka doesn't play, he gets right into it, and makes the metaphor clear immediately. i have to applaud that and just its cleverness. i wish his inability to communicate was developed more (like screaming and nothing comes out, i think thats a missed opportunity). this is the type of novel you can't have spoiled for you because, since i knew the concept beforehand, there wasn't much more to gather other than the symbolism and a bit of plot

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
    dearwillqw
    Aug 16, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0

    it ends like THAT????????? i love how each new event in the narrator's life says something new about the behaviours of women and men in a patriarchal society. about how we view each other, do what's easier sometimes, about which men we can trust, if any. i almost feel like i just read an essay, rather than a novel. it made its point so clearly.

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  • La Muñeca Menor
    dearwillqw
    Aug 15, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

    me lo asignó mi maestra., ella dijo: « aborda temas como los roles de género y las expectativas sociales ». imagínate mi sorpresa cuando resulta ser la historia de terror más aterradora que he leído jamás. i was assigned it by my teacher, she said, "it delves into themes of gender roles and societal expectations". imagine my surprise when it's the scariest horror i've ever read.

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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  • The Hours
    dearwillqw
    Aug 09, 2025
    5.0
    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

    oh my god.

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
    Thoughts from 15% (page 44)

    does she ever explain everything about the worldbuilding/how she got to this point/sociopolitical stuff in detail, or is the reader just supposed to make educated guesses as it gets clearer and clearer?

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
    Thoughts from 15% (page 44)

    does she ever explain everything about the worldbuilding/how she got to this point/sociopolitical stuff in detail, or is the reader just supposed to make educated guesses as it gets clearer and clearer?

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  • The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
    Thoughts from 7% (page 22)

    i have like 3 guesses as to what's going on and i don't like any of them

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  • A Tale of Two Cities
    dearwillqw
    Jul 25, 2025
    4.0
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

    slowly fell in love with this book and wrestled with it and yeah.. it is just so good. the visuals and voices that dickens consistently provides to his stories are SO immersive and unique to him i love <3

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