A chill but productive study date with a lovely friend of mine in our local library. While she edited a video, I started reading and annotating one of the books from my summer reading list for school. The weather and the library aesthetic reminds me of fall, even though it’s July 5th.
I guess we all have a little bit of ‘i want to save the world’ in us, but i just want to put it out there that it’s okay if you are able to only save one person and it’s also okay if that person is you.
Its always “I love you” and never “I know I am imperfect, but I will humble myself before you because I cannot imagine my life without you, and that is why I wish to marry you”
Yeah alcohol’s cool but have you ever waltzed with your enemy in their masquerade ball, their face inches away from yours and their arms wrapped around you tightly? Me neither, pass the bottle
There is something entirely beautiful and utterly heartbreaking about the concept of falling in love.
Its when you hear their laugh and you stare in wonder, speechless that you’re able to witness it. Its when you remember every little detail about them and they’re shocked by it. Its when you wake up and your first thought is whether they had a peaceful sleep or if they woke the entire night. Its when you write them love letters and spritz the paper with their favourite perfume.
But its also watching them love smile with someone else. Its also watching them write love letter to someone else. Its also watching them begin to fade from your daily routine.
But mostly and ever painfully so, its watching them love another while your heart ebbs away just a little more as the cycle of love starts again.
This was such an interesting read, I was honestly really pleasantly surprised by hw much I enjoyed this book. If you’ve been reading my review for a while, then you’ll know that the thing I hate about reading is expectation. If my expectations are too high because of a ‘hype’ then I’m always disappointed - so my outlook is to always go in with low expectation. But this book really took me by surprise. I was kindly sent a copy of this book by Hodder & Stoughton, and I don’t know why, but I’m always a little hesitant when I get sent books by publishing companies and feel a lot of pressure to read them. But I decided that this would be one of my holiday reads…little did I realise that it would be so profound.
The novel is in the form of diary entries, so follows the life of the narrator from when she’s very young through into her adult life in South Africa - her education as a teenager, training as a doctor, her relationship with her mother. But most importantly, the novel also comments on a number of socio-political events and attitudes within South Africa. Throughout the book there’s a lot of commentary on the divide within the community between light and dark skinned South Africans, as well as xenophobic attitudes towards individuals from North African countries and the discrimination that they face/faced.
There are so many interesting comments made throughout the novel, without giving too much of the novel’s plot away (as to prevent spoilers), its interesting to read about the inability to speak out against a majority view or ideology. I became so engrossed in this book that I managed to start, and finish it in a matter of hours. Due to the length and layout of the book, it was very easy to just power read, but the cliff hangers and content also helped keep me hooked too.
I’m so so in love with this book and everything that it discusses and the way it brings taboo subjects into the forefront of narrative, you’d be a fool not to read it. Completely and utterly deserving of its 9/10 rating, Evening Primrose is a touching and thought provoking novel that will leave you completely stunned - a must read this summer.
“All lives end; all hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage, Sherlock.” Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock, BBC)
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Yesterday we celebrated 10 years of the first episode of “Sherlock” from the BBC, I love that show, it’s among my top 5 favorites, I love everything about it, the story, the characters, the actors, the cinematography, all of it. I found my love for Benedict Cumberbatch in that TV show, now he’s my favorite actor, i love him very much. A couple of months ago i read the last manga (based in the tv series) that is published in spanish can’t wait for the second part. Anyway, here in my city it’s raining a lot so i’m spending my sunday rewatching Avatar the last airbender and reading Godsgrave, yesterday i finish Obsidio and i’m very happy to finally have finished the Illuminae Files, Have a lovely Sunday people!
“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You’re a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
