helebm

i like (almost) all kinds of books and i’m trying to read more right now, specially more diverse books. my favorite genre is the one i haven’t read last

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Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)

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The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 0553213695 / 9780553213690 "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. As W.H. Auden wrote, "Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

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It’s interesting that Gregor’s boss believed Gregor was shirking off because Gregor had never been sick a day… rather than believing that because he had never been sick something must be seriously wrong for him not to show up.

I have a version of this story of my own. I woke up with an eye infection one morning and couldn’t go to work. (I worked at a supermarket as a cashier.) But my boss didn’t really believe me, so my mom drove me there so my boss could see my ugly, swollen eye. He certainly believed me then.

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Five or six years to pay off his parents’ debt? He seems unusually optimistic about that rather depressing fact. This must be an early sign about his temperament.

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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

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Changing reading habits?

Why do I have an urge to start 8 different books today?

I’m feeling messy 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve always been a straight forward reader. One audiobook, one physical or digital book at a time so no more than 2 at once but different formats but suddenly I’m feeling like getting messy and starting a bunch of books but I also feel like that might be a bad idea for future me specifically. Future me would be really annoyed with current me. 🤨🫪🫪🫪

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