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#whatthisweek update !!! hiii seems like it’s been years again lol!! here i am after relaxing over my spring break 🎀 these last few days felt unreal because of the sun, i can finally just wear a cozy shirt outside and enjoy the breeze. my girls and I went to a tulip village, idk how to call it to pick up some beautiful flowers and it was magical! pluss i’ve watched the first season of “you” and I decided to stop there lol i’m still currently reading the lost symbol and I love it sm, it’s a bit chunky so we’ll see when i’ll get to the end of it, i’m already thinking of my next read tho and IDK so help a sister out! 💕 hope you had an amazing week !! byebye doha 🌺

autumn! the season you are 🥹 while it’s getting hotter every day, im still stuck in my favourite season! wbu? are you enjoying spring so far? 🎀💌 lovee uu, doha 💌

the 5 stars book tag!! + #dump ⭐️ Thought they’d be 5 stars but weren’t * One of Us Is Lying — Karen M. McManus * Valiant — Holly Black * Ninth House — Leigh Bardugo * Verity — Colleen Hoover * Ruin and Rising — Leigh Bardugo ⭐️ Thought they’d be 5 stars and were * Vow of Thieves — Mary E. Pearson * Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo * White Nights — Fyodor Dostoevsky * Animal Farm — George Orwell * The Stranger — Albert Camus ⭐️ TBR (I expect to be 5 stars) * A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara * Babel — R. F. Kuang * The Lost Symbol — Dan Brown * The Poppy War — R. F. Kuang * The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas tysm @dear.bibliophile_ for tagging me!! even if you are not tagged in this feel free to do it!! ——— little update about these last few days!! soo ramadan came to an end and it feels so wrong to eat now but eid mubarak to everyone out there! ❤️ during ramadan i couldn’t read much really i was tired 90% of the time and sleeping the other 10% lol, but i started the lost symbol by @authordanbrown out of pure curiosity and now im on page 100, i forgot how unputdownable are his books really 😭 anyway, hope march is treating you well! ly doha 🌷

the most magical city ever 🏛️🤎 went there a few years ago and i remember being overwhelmed by the thought of walking on the same roads where other historical figures of centuries back did, it gave me chills really! here’s my tour, enjoy it!! doha 🌷

what if TSH was told from Bunny’s point of view instead of Richard’s? 🤎 years ago i read this question somewhere and it did something to me i think the whole story would feel very different. I remember that Richard sees Henry, Camilla, Charles, and Francis as mysterious and fascinating. He almost worships them, so their world feels beautiful and dramatic, almost like something from a Greek tragedy. but from Bunny’s point of view, the group might look very different. instead of seeming impressive, they might just seem like a bunch of rich, strange students who take their Greek class way too seriously. Henry might feel less like a genius and more like someone who is cold and a little creepy, which was exactly what i thought too, especially towards the end. all their talk about ancient rituals and Greek ideas might even sound a bit ridiculous. the tone of the story would probably change too. Bunny is sarcastic, loud, and always joking or complaining. because of that, the book might have more dark humor. instead of Richard’s dreamy descriptions, we would probably get more blunt intrusive thoughts and funny or criticizing comments about the people around him. it would also make the story tense in a different way. Bunny slowly realizes that the others are hiding something terrible about what happened during their secret ritual. at first he jokes about it and teases them, but little by little he starts to understand that the others are afraid of him because he knows the truth. i think that would make the story even more tragic. we would watch Bunny push them further and further without fully realizing how dangerous the situation is, while the reader can already see what might happen to him. what do you guys think?? tsh remains for me the only book ever written iykyk see you soon <33 doha 🤎

spring is soo back 🎀🌸🍃💌 hii, as a fall girl i must admit that spring is definitely my second favourite season !! here are some books i think are perfect for spring 🌷 Little Women: warm, comforting, and quietly inspiring. It feels like personal growth in soft spring sunlight. Caraval: soo magical it feels like a blooming garden The Little Prince as gentle as a flower, this book is so underrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: the whimsical chaos is so spring coded to me 🌸📚 wish you a great new season!! doha 💌

february recap !! ❄️ hi everyone, if there’s one thing i’m so glad that i did was definitely coming back here! thank youu so much for the love lately 🥹 i read one book which is a little amount but considering that i haven’t read anything for months i’m really proud lol! hope march will be more prosperous in terms of reading and achieving my goals !! yours sincerely, doha 🎀

I am a lover girl when it comes to the magic world of Pinterest ✨✨✨ I just have the biggest emotional attachment to these pics or any other pics in my phone (i got 10k pictures i should delete some but i just cant send help) my pinterest is as always dbenreads, check it out if you want ❤️❤️ doha

Lolita plot: it recounts the story of a middle-aged literature professor, Humbert Humbert, who becomes obsessed with a young girl. The book explores themes of obsession, manipulation, and the unreliable narrator, and is known for its controversial subject matter and complex literary style. It has been the subject of much discussion and analysis regarding its artistic merit and ethical implications. I still haven’t understood the real objective of this book, but maybe there isn’t. Nabakov states that there isn’t any moral aim because he didn’t believe that novels could teach or convey values. You can agree or not, however reading this book made me realize something truly important. It shows how surprisingly easy it is to be persuaded as a reader by a “silver-tounged” narrator who is also a very smart and cultured man that’s highly unlikely to commit any hideous act. I mean, this book must be the most well written book I have ever read, I was in a state of both amusement and disgust while reading this book. That’s also the reason why I really cannot rate this book. Do i rate the writing or the story? Since it talks about really sensitive themes that require careful handling, such as child abuse and manipulation, i thought I could tell you about Lolita as a character. I think what brought Lolita closer to H.H. could be because she just needed a father figure, since hers died when she was little. (btw this is my interpretation please correct me) Considering also that her mother hated her to the core, this emotional isolation made Lolita an “easier target” because she had no supportive adult to turn to. It might seem as if she was trying to be loved and cared by one, in fact i think she just wanted a father figure rather than a lover in H.H, however she did “mimick” the sexual acts Humbert wanted to ensure her own basic needs like food, clothes, or small kindnesses, were met Which makes this whole story even more sad for me, her life was torn apart at just 13 y/o and got pregnant at just 17. She was just a child. Let me know what you guys think btw 💋 (I REALLY recommend watching the movie adaptation by Kubrick!!) doha 🩷

since new people have arrived here and others don’t really remember me ahah, here’s a #gettoknowme post!! i thought it’d be a good idea to show you who I am, since i’ve been faceless and at times nameless too!! hope you enjoy this as mush as i did making it lol, if you have any questions let me knoww doha 🎀

pics i’ve fallen in love with… (ik Valentine’s day was yesterday, im late 😭) i love more what these pics represent rather then the pics actually! reading, travelling and art and all the little things in between— late night talks, quiet cafés, getting lost on purpose, pages with notes in the margins, sunsets that felt like secrets, museums that made time stop. memories that are so special for me 🤍 hope you all had an amazing week

BOOKS ARE POLITICAL Books are the keys to open up a door that’s able to distance us from the reality we live in and they let us step into worlds we can only imagine. They are a perfect way to be both entertained and cultured, for me learning English while having fun reading a fantasy romance is elite! But books are not just this, literature is not just “pretty”. In the preface of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde states that books have no moral aim and they can be just beautifully or awfully written, period. Aestheticism based its philosophy on “Art for Art’s sake”, meaning the objective of art is just being visually appealing. I completely understand that a painting being beautiful is indeed beautiful, however anything we as human beings produce is inevitably connected to our daily lives. Have you ever thought about imagining something you’ve never seen? or create a color you’ve never seen? You’ll see that it’s impossible to imagine something’s that’s not in the slightest traceable to reality. With that being said, let’s go back to books. What’s one thing that has always been the basis for humanity? Politics ofc We cannot live without politics, even anarchism in order to function needs political organization. As much as you can avoid politics in your life, especially as a teenager, is gonna catch up to you, it is impossible to avoid and therefore impossible to eradicate from anything, even books. No matter how much you avoid politics in writing a book, just the preliminary remark that a human being is writing it means that it is traceable to reality and politics. That’s because, even if someone doesn’t acknowledge it, we all have political opinions that are mirrored by what we stand for and, simply, by what we buy, eat, drive and consume. Additionally, books tend to narrate stories about protagonists that live in our society, or a dystopic world, or in the 1800s or in another planet, however they’re still recounting the lives of other human beings that live in a certain period of time and in a certain political regime. Books are political and they denounce and criticize politics, that’s why it’s the first thing that dictators ban lmk what you think!! doha