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The rachel incident by caroline o’donoghue

in honor of St. Patrick’s day, i just finished this book about unrequited love, love at the wrong time, love again at the right time, requited friendship that ebbs and flows, etc., set in Ireland in the early aughts. and i am weeping! it’s very funny and heartwarming and precise, definitely one of the better contemporary lit books i’ve read in the past year of course, read if u like Sally Rooney…

@pratibha

Mar 17, 2024

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my brilliant friend by elena ferrante

It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl!!!

@ch0wwder

Jul 10, 2024

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NORMAL PEOPLE - SALLY ROONEY

A very popular book, but if you havent read it yet... I recommend it. Devoured it in a few hours first time I read it. The way the characters view relationships is very in line with my own. To the point where since reading it I have a relationship with a similar dynamic since (don't know if I recommend that). The point of the book, to me, has always been to showcase the difference forms love can take on, even when the feelings are unchanging. Other than that Sally Rooney is just a really good writer, is tapped into interesting discourses which she weaves into her stories, and she knows how to make a character problematic in ways that feel relatable and honest instead of foreign or scary. + i just really like stories about 20-something-year-olds being themselves, figuring shit out without much plot holding it together. My best friend gave it a 1/5 stars on Goodreads bc she thought everyone was boring and whiny sooo like.. it's not for everyone maybe.

@jahnneke

May 18, 2025

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loving isnT easy

i think my heart will do anything to just keep on loving and keep on forgiving and it’s really time for my head to teach my heart thats it’s okay to lose.

@sunflowerlady

Jan 5, 2025

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a poem i wrote

there are things i think are weird  but it’s not that they are actually  weird  it’s that they are unusual  or they bring me a new perspective — one that i’m not so used to — like seeing an orange tractor on the side of the road  surrounded by three men in orange  construction suits  in the middle of the french countryside  or the fact that  at the beach yesterday, the foggy glimpse of land, the island we could see in the distance was the british island of jersey. it made me think about how the world is really so small  and that we, humans, are the ones  that make it seem so big and  vast.  we are the ones that over complicate over think over populate  over build over use  over dignify ourselves  when we are just merely visitors in this never ending universe. and somehow, in some  situations that idea is  safety and  comfort. it’s refreshing  to know that as messy and as complicated  our lives are, none of it  actually matters. because if nothing matters, we can get away with a lot. we can be mean and  crazy and stupid  and in love  and happy and hungry for more and sad  and lively and alone.  but then i remember that “we are not a drop in the ocean we are the ocean in a drop” and we don’t have to pretend that our  emotions are meaningless  and that our lives aren’t meant to be lived  and we aren’t meant to be thought about and  cared for and loved.  the things we feel are real and they hurt. they are painful.  they are beautiful.  they stay and they pass.  just like the fog that covers up jersey — just like the tractor on the side of the road — just like us.

@sunflowerlady

Jan 4, 2025

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MY THOUGHTS ON LOVE

people stay together because of one reason or the next, but how stupid could you be to then not be in love? but then again, there’s some sort of weird, twisted, sick romance in staying with someone even through the thin. even through the sickness, and the bad and the ugly. maybe they are waiting to get their spark back, maybe the world is against them, or maybe, just maybe, they stick together because they found their person—they’ve built a life together, and neither one knows how to let go.

@sunflowerlady

1d ago