Nota

There was a mistake. The siblings Marilla and Matthew expected a boy who could help with their garden, they got a girl called Anne with an “e” instead (She also likes to be called Cornelia). Unexpected to others, they decided to keep her. Anne is just that good, perhaps too much, or perhaps not enough, there is no stopping point in growth.

Anne of Green Gables is a story of imagination, ambition, and family. Anne imagines, talks, and dreams more than people are willing to listen to, and it is her greatest gift along with her heart.

A trip to a Canadian-fictional place, in 1908, called Avonlea is beautified through small Anne's eyes, nose, and ears. All the shades of the sky through the day sound poetic, and romantic, Anne tries to make them so, as most things she takes an interest in.

The dialog is charming, the characters have distinct voices. Matthew saying “Well now,” made me happy every time because I made a conscious note of it. My favorite character is Marilla, but both siblings who take care of Anne are great. There's quite a bit of dated diction, but reading it on ebook and being able to look every word up helped immensely. (Learning 3 ways to name this specific boat, fun for me, but could be not fun for you.)

The book isn't perfectly joyous, or without meaning, there are lows, and downs, mistakes, and sad things. Before Anne reaches Green Gables she had a taste of a life not so blessed, she gets to learn plenty of things she missed out on and encounters new troubles. I cried a couple of times, but it is also not that hard to make me cry.

Reading this was a big joy :))

This book promotes a bunch of cool ideas, but also relies on the church of satan book, which from my understanding is not that great book as a moral compass. I have yet to read that one tho. This is a very simple read made out of very short essays. There are parts of the author's life in it, it sounds very fascinating, and it's very cool how much progress they have made since addiction, homelessness, clinical insanity. It's cool how satanism can provide tools for outcasted people to have a voice.

I found it useful as some information in it helped me to have a really elaborate lucid dream. There is a religious perspective and some religious dreams, I don't believe in God, but I did not find any problems with that in this context, it was interesting. It is for the general reader and it has some simplified Carl Gustav Jung concepts thrown in. It is quite old, but it mostly just describes the dreams the writer and some other people had, things people dream about don't have an expiration date unlike science I guess.

Žiauriai primena Manga skaitymą. Pradžioje viskas buvo niūriausia - kraujo vakarėliai prostitučių žudimas. Pagaiboje viskas ant taip pasikeitė kad įtariu antra knyga turės visiškai kitokį toną.

Pagrindinė pora yra gan neemociškai stabili ne vien iš tos pusės kad jie vampyrai, bet labai linksma apie juos skaityti nors žinai kad jie vėl susipyks neužilgo.

Labai platus laiko etapas gan atgaivino kūrinį, daug elementų nustebino. Buvo žiaurumo, šiek tiek sekso, bet jis toks idyliškas, neperžengiantis ribų.

Labai smagu kad toks kūrinys iš Lietuvos ir kad jį galima lietuviškai skaityti, dar iš Klaipėdos.

Mano viena draugė labai mėgo apie vampyrūs skaityti, bet lietuviškai neperskaitytų, neskaičiau jokio kūrinio su lgbt pora kuri nėra tik subtekstas, reiktų paieškot tokių

A very hopeful and motivating message for writers to discover the truth and beauty, everthing given to us in the chosen form of word. The language we create is a glimpse of the shadow which brought us all here. The true esssence of symbols gets lost, writing is the exercise to bring them all back and discover the new, yet the old, the universe that has always been here since it's beggining.

Juokingiau negu tikėjausi. Klasikinės Lietuvių knygos visados būna tokios kokių nesitikiu, rodos kad jos būtų niūrios ar kokios nepaskaitamos, bet čia buvo ant tiek daug komedijos! Dramos!

Labai patiko Uršulė, reiktų knygos vien iš jos perspektyvos ir gyvenimo.

Man nelabai patinka stilius ar senesni lietuvių terminai, sudaro įspūdi kad mes kaimiečiai, pagonys, laukiniai (tokie ir esame). Iš tikro savo rašimę dar baisesnę kalbą naudoju, bet grrrrr.

Labai patiko kad šioje istorijoje panaudojamas velnias, nes bandau tas istorijas su velniais perskaityti ir jo gal ir yra daugiau lietuviškų knygų su velniais, nes mes turime tą mitologinį vaibą daug kur.

Pabaiga buvo labai gera.

Man labai patinka kai autoriai atsižvelgia į vietinias vietoves ir joms sukuria legendų. Gali tada kokius veikėjua priskirti prie realių vietų, juos aplankyti ir yay turizmas.

Labai paprasta informacija ir kuri tikrai pasens(ir manau jau pasenusi), labai paprasti receptai ir nėra viskas ant taip tiksliai išnagrinėta. Daug gali rasti savaime neknygoje ieškodamas. Bet manau yra daug vertės kad mes Lietuvoje turime paprastą įvadą prieiti prie veganizmo ir tokią knygą turintis žmogus gal prieis prie veganizmo jeigu jau nepriėjo.

Ji labai paprastutė, bet dabar galvoju nejaugi veganišką knygą mažiau ratinsiu negu fikcines istorijas kai ypatingai veganiškų knygų tiek mažai? Tai 10/10, tikiuosi obuolys daugiau tokių išleis.

Manau gan jau senas leidinys kas blogai kai susįję su mitybą. Pastebėjau kad yra rekomendacija iš karto išgerti litrą vandens ryte, bet vandenį reikia gerti iš lėto, tu negali per daug prisigerti jeigu negeri jo viso iš karto. Žinios apie glukozė taip pat pasenusios, viskas suversta ant riebalų ir nežinau kiek informacijos pasitikėti.

Rodos kad galėčiau mažiau naudoti aliejaus ir druskos, turbūt neduoda jie naudos. Autorės saitas dingęs ir rodos ji aktivismu nebeužsiėma spendžiant iš jokių naujienų ieškant naršyklėje.

Šitoje knygoje yra labiau nagrinėjimas neviriamas maistas, aš ant tiek dėl sveikatos nepasiryžau, bet jau kurį laiką atsisakiau pridėtinio cukraus ir galvoju gal nebūtų ant taip sunku nevartoti ant tiek perdirbamų produktų. Gal per didelį santykį riebalų ir baltymų valgiau.

Verkiu kodėl maistas ant taip sunkiai suprantamas lol, lmao.

Noriu aukštai įvertinti dėl mažai veganizmo knygų lietuvoje, bet kai kuri informacija tikrai pasenusi.

So I was feeling the emotions and decided to go for a walk late at night and this book descends on me! Called “self-respect”! What a symbol to randomly encounter! It's like it fell from the sky into my life! Ridiculous!

I was feeling a ton of emotional turmoil because I have made certain bad decisions for myself, specifically staying in a very unsatisfying friendship. The moment they devalued me I just cut the cord tho which I feel very proud of because I did it way sooner than I would in the past and now I can see all the ways I was too lenient in so many other cases.

This book was published in Lithuania in 1991 which is wild because its contents are basically radical self acceptance which I feel is very big on youtube right now. I wonder how many books like this there are because I am not that knowledgeable about them. I thought this was very nuanced though and I like how the author says to accept all the emotions and to not leave out any of them. Following this advice I feel way better for now, because I was really representing certain feelings and I don't know why but I have to really try to feel things (probably because of all sorts of bad experiences hahahaha), but for the first time in forever since I consciously tried to awaken the feelings in me I can feel stuff like fear more vividly and I very much enjoy that. It feels like I matter because I do!

The relationship I left, the person specifically came after the fact that I wanted to feel more feelings and explore myself even if I fail and this book described such a person so well. I already knew a lot of stuff in here, but it's nice to hear it again (because I needed it) and there were definitely times where I thought “Huh! Yea, maybe I can accept myself even more when doing this sorta thing.”. I love how this appreciates everyone's autonomy and rights to appreciate the things that they like which don't hurt others.

This did not feel like empty platitudes to me or
something like that and this book argues that you can in fact hate your parents if they did you wrong, you can hate someone or something without it being destructive or causing harm.

This book made me self-assured in certain decisions I made because it defined self-hatred in a specific way which I encountered in others through my life. It clicked like oh! Yea, that was self-hatred, I was right. I think I will find it way easier from now on to detect that sort of thing. For example it never clicked that someone would post on social media celebrities because of a vain reason rather than that they actually liked them. I like certain celebrities though I guess they are not very widely liked and quite eccentric, mostly bullied by the public. They bring wisdom in my life and it's weird that someone would not legit believe in people yet still worship them or something. I like to mention people who inspire me, but I guess there are people who mention others so they get a boost! Wacky!

Anyways, I think my life has changed forever, not because of this book, but because of what happened lately. I am excited and I think this is a good book. Actually not sure if this goodreads page about it is accurate, the lithuanian version has 142 pages, but I am pretty sure this is the right title so idk. Have a nice day!

The second entry in the series Myths & Music continues to be more brutal and at the same time introduces animal rights to the core of its story. At the start of the book the magical elements culminate and some of the powers get explained more in detail. The music might refer to a flute, but also there are moments when it is used to drown out protagonist's thoughts.

““I just know things about people. I just feel this energy radiating off them, and I know what they're feeling. If I focus, it's almost like being able to read their minds. But even when I'm not paying attention I can still feel it, especially when the emotion is very strong.””

The characters from the last book become relevant again and there are revelations about them. There's new and exciting characters and they look cool from their descriptions. It felt really nice to see so many characters support animal rights and to see them face their unique difficulties in choosing this path. It is interesting how symbolism and metaphors interweave with the saving of animals because I have never read a story that does that, it feels special. The brutality of the events really match the seriousness of animal exploitation. The story becomes very thrilling and that's when I usually start coming up with a ton of inside jokes, haha.

““What exactly are you trying to drive out?” “Rage, despair, shame at the human race,””

The nature of addiction plays a big role in unexpected ways and how people deal with it. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone carries a hidden addiction, some of them seem right in front of your eyes, but get brushed off or not focused on. The characters don't seem to take care of themselves (eating toast, drinking whiskey) and that carries over the kind of actions they commit onto others. Carrie is a book by Stephen King which I haven't read, but I wonder if the name choice is intentional. The character's full name in that book is Carrie White which would be an interesting coincidence if not on purpose. It is a bit hard to imagine a scenario where everything goes well or better for the characters at this point, but I hope that the story gets surprising on that front. There is a whole Fairy Land now which could serve the characters to their surprise, especially if the world randomly decided to stop farming animals for food, haha.

“The crow finally stopped crying out when the Man hoisted himself far enough out of the water to lessen the pull of the tide and, as he slid his body up onto the tree, her sense of relief was stronger than anything she had ever felt before.”

I really love crows as a pet concept even though in reality it is not possible, so I am glad that there is Luna and that she follows the protagonist on this journey. She was such a light and comfort, the start of this book is way lighter than its later parts. Ramirez, Camille even if not good characters sound cool so I hope they get put to good use, the set up was just really cool in general.

“Cleanse me
Of all that's untrue
Heal me
Make me brand new
Free me
From the self I once knew
Make me
A vessel for you
Soot from all the factories
And shadows from my mind
Make me clean and pure again
Erase the stains of time
Wash away the surface
Reveal the truth below
Beneath this worldly skin there shines
The Mother's green/gold glow
Shield me
With your loving wings
Drape me In the light that you bring
Make me
Brave, make me strong
That I may
Right what is wrong”

It feels that a lot of characters are wronged by the world and you can sense how, it is hard to see them beyond this, but it might be something worthwhile. These lyrics are describing the act of writing to me and how it brings you to new places. The fact that the next entry is called lies is a bit concerning, but where there are lies there must be truth as well!

A simple, little book about the US healthcare system, it is part of the death-positive movement which encourages conversations around death and views it as a natural part of life without its avoidance. This book argues for honest conversations when people are expected to die so that they could plan their exit better and not delay palliative therapy or hospice. They should be mentioned earlier so that the patients could arrive at them sooner and not die at the hands of strangers. It discusses how death became a more of a public spectacle rather than an individual endeavour, the way it became more of a business rather than something experienced in the privacy of one's home. Doctors trained with cadavers and fed pure information without many courses on empathy and care if any at all usually provide little help comforting their patients. A lot of money goes into healthcare, but it's distributed badly and a trillion of it went to total waste.

Disappointingly despite it mentioning corruptive and profit driven incentives from the pharma industries, it doesn't mention nutrition at all despite veganism being able to treat a lot of the diseases mentioned without the need for the people to die prematurely.

I expected this to have different subject matter and lean more into death itself rather than the medicine side of things, this is the only MIT book that the library had, I did not know what to expect. I feel like I am lately collecting information about all sorts of death, other, outcast movements. It feels good to accept the void this way by collecting this pure information and combining it. A lot of these movements could use the other movements help because a lot of them are related and build on each other. This reminded me of antinatalism since death aid was mentioned and how it should be offered to patients because even if they don't use it it makes them feel that they are more in control of themselves and their destiny, it reduces needless helplessness.

I feel like there are way worse problems out there, but it is definitely not nice how we treat people about to die and this should be one of the things that society should care more about. The author provides a personal experience with death and explains how you can treat a patient with information and yet view them compassionately and care for them as a fellow human being at the same time.

I read this book, but in english. There's no English version that's been added on goodreads.

Reading this has been deeply concerning for so many of these ecovillages did not have veganism as their main focus. In fact none of these villages made veganism a requirement and I feel if anyone or anything should understand animal welfare it is people concerned with this eco stuff and with all this money to build themselves these dreamy places. There was quite a huge number of these villages that made vegetarianism a requirement though. There was one village which provided the villages with organic meat, that one was yikes. Some like organic beekeeping and a lot of them use animals on some level and I suppose I would like them to go into specifics for that, I believe there is another book that goes on eco concepts so maybe I will find out by reading that. That also is a bit concerning. The worst part is these live love laugh prolonged mini stories at the start of each chapter, why, get me away, deeply distressing.

Concerning stuff out of the way these villages do seem like havens in a lot of ways. All of them function differently, but some have alternative education systems for children, some have their own economy and businesses, some have rules on silence, there is one that does something akin to what performance artists would do to prepare themselves. It is so cool that Lithuania has around 3 of them at the very least because I am pretty sure 3 were mentioned. One of them gave opportunities to the jobless and all sorts of outcasts, people with disabilities, that one sounds epic. Some of these just collect artists and they just do all sorts of crafts stuff. Most of these have self-sustainable models where the villages provide the food for themselves like they grow fruits and vegetables.

Most of these were based around Vladimir Megre's vision, I never heard of this guy's existence so I'm curious why so many of these villages decided to follow this guy's plans.
Are these some subset of more spiritual ecovillages? Am I missing the full pictures by just reading this? I do hope so because there is more chance then for me to discover cooler ones.

As cool as this concept is, it does seem like you have to buy the land for it, find a community and build the houses, establish trees and bushes, build a literal village which won't be on my radar anytime soon, but I might write about it. It is cool how they try to be radical about everything (not about veganism though!), like having holigarchy? (don't remember but I assume it's to do with the word holistic)

I am a bit sad that my library doesn't have the most relevant books on these topics, in my humble opinion. It does have some vegan cookbooks so maybe I am missing something, let's hope so.

This simple comic features accessible information about human trafficking and prostitution. It argues that this isn't a profession and people in it do not get liberated, it is a trade where only the pimps profit and women's bodies get commodified, the physical and sexual abuse is pretty much expected and not receiving it is an exception. Legalising prostitution doesn't help and doesn't protect the women at all, women do not legally label themselves as prostitutes in countries where it does get legalised anyways.

The comic artistically doesn't intrigue me, but it's short and has valuable information, way more than lots of other comics. This tackles a still unsolved problem which we do not put enough effort into eradicating, we get lots of laymen making jokes about this and a lot of insensitive people who make fun of poverty conditions which makes this happen in the first place.

The style really fits the subject matter when I think about it, it is a bit grotesque and you cannot call any persons in it conventionally pretty and as such it keeps up the spirit of valuing important information rather than selling something for profit. These experiences are so glum and terrible, somewhere in the shadow of most people's consciousness.

Anger. Pure, unadulterated, undistilled anger. Rage. People getting unalived page after page with no stop. Swords at the bowels, gore and insults. Drama between Gods. Slavery.

To be fair I should have expected this of the oldest war epic, but there were no characters, no arcs I cared for. All the Gods were awful. The whole war seemed like it could end at some points, but then a character or a God got too salty for no reason. The whole war happens for no reason. It is not some trauma or whatever they are fighting for, but to get a woman. This contained so much toxicity I exercised 90 minutes, no problem, it is so full of bad energy.

Also I am very surprised how soon it ended? I thought it would go on for some more so I checked other 2 versions of the Iliad I had and no it ended without resolving the most intriguing parts.

This really made me think about how I handle my emotions and how it really affects me if I read something with a certain energy and how maybe not all classics are that worth reading and how I should really be looking for books that uplift me. Like I do not feel like I learned much from this, having those characters in my memory feels like baggage, but I suppose they have influenced our culture so much and you see them everywhere.

I hope the Odyssey and other Greek works are better and maybe focused less on war. I mean the work and days are about farming? Or so I heard, I hope.

I am trying to make a comment in my head about the characters, but really the real characters here were the armors and the swords. Like wow they really took all the care to forget them. Achilles is like...I hate him. He loves having slave women I guess and feels like they are his property... Wow, what a cool character? Ikr. He might be Bi, but like I don't care, we have a better book for that. Patroclus was just there I guess, I didn't really get good vibes from him and he was very okay with women slaves too.

The translation was a bit quirky using slurs and all that. I dunno, did Latin have them? Probably, I dunno. But it was very odd at times seeing those derogatory words.

What the author did well was the descriptions at the start, he would make these similes comparing troops to bees or something and really he was hacking everyone's brains with mnemonics way before they became a thing. He did it so everyone would remember this messy, gory story of pretty warrior angst.

I am kinda disappointed in Athene, I expected her to encompass wisdom, but what they meant by that is that she is a huge girlboss, gatekeeper, gaslighter.

It is funny how this whole war is so pointless with all the Gods just running around and ultimately randomly deciding who dies and not, but I guess humans can't see it. It's really disrespectful haha. They don't really seem much better than the Bible guy for worship and Zeus is pretty much the Bible guy— carbon copy. I know I am venting, but I read this whole thing so let's keep going.

When the novel goes into the petty drama, it is a bit more fun than the constant unaliving. It feels like they could almost do something with the characters, but then just let them be snakes to each other.

I have noticed a lot of “the sound and the fury” descriptions which I guess must be a popular phrase? Made me all the more curious about Faulkner.

Hector's family dynamic in particular seemed so traditional to me I chuckled for a while. Like they really be setting up their kid for a terrible life and they are so proud of themselves.

I love how many times instead of swords people actually just pick up humongous rocks that are just lying down everywhere and despite how heavy they are people succeed picking them up everytime.

I think my main problem is that you can take away some things in retrospect in our modern era, but it doesn't feel worth it and it definitely feels that we can write a better tale now. I suppose there must be technical poetic achievements here, but I am not the person to comment on that. I don't think a tale which recognizes the devastation of war should be so devoid in heart for the most of its duration because really it doesn't feel like the sorrow at the end is earned or resolved or anything. In this type of tale one should connect greatly to the characters as a raft, but again I did not connect to them at all so yea.

If anyone comes up to me and starts fanboying about the iliad (the song of achilles is fine) then I will run and try to save myself because I will have all sorts of unkind presumptions about them!! I am sorry in advance.

Am I not finishing this review yet because it's kinda like a toxic relationship? Yes. Bye.

My library only had this young adult version, not sure if they are that different, this one is shorter I think because I saw a slightly bigger one at the bookstore.

I would like to begin by stating that the author makes it clear that they aren't willing to be vegan for the planet despite wanting this to be inspiring and hopeful. They could have just not mentioned this, not put this in my brain and not let me think about their hypocrisy. The book is full of lists, cities that were affected by climate change. It is a bit annoying as I don't live in the US so the amounts mentioned went over my head. I don't orient myself well with US cities yet.

I think this is relevant and overall good although it doesn't offer any solutions and lists the problems. This does need to be seen as a problem and people need to be active for it. If you want to hear about examples of climate change damage this is it. There are some culture opinion rants at the end too about the apocalyptic themes in our fiction. Not sure what to make of it.

Ben shrugged. “I don't know why they're helping me. I don't
know why any of this is happening, except that Carrie got involved
with a woman who I'm starting to think is actually evil.”
“Good and evil are not as straight forward as most people
like to believe,” Mrs. Dennings muttered distractedly.

This book unlike the others in the series starts with a backstory, this one resembled the feminist books that I was reading just now and also reminded me of Octavia Butler because she totally writes stories like that in my head. The very start was the most exciting and had so much happening, it was a great beginning. The magic of this world got expanded a bit yet again with all sorts of people with other powers and rituals being introduced. I really like it getting more complex and convoluted. As the book progressed it resembled the first book a bit in all the drugs and I feel like I am starting to hyperfixate on how often the protagonist smokes because it feels like a lot. I wish these characters did some other activities.

He showered and shaved, mostly just for the sake of having
something to do. Then he returned to Isaac's room and sat down
on the bed. The thought of Isaac and Isabelle downstairs leading
what, to them, were their normal lives made Ben acutely aware of
how subjective the idea of normal truly is, and how quickly that idea
can change.

Sigils and Secrets combines the supernatural, thriller like atmosphere and intensively focuses on the inner lives of its characters. Not only that, but it is deeply conscious of the environment and at the core it connects with nature and animal rights.

It starts off with a character deeply smoking which signifies their intense distress over events that happened. It creates an atmosphere similar to that of TV series, comics and it also has a survival element to it, focusing on all the supply gathering which reminds me of the zombie apocalypse genre although the scale of the problems is not on that level, at least not yet. It is gritty and violent, but also contrasts this with other moments that are joyful and picturescue.

It's a kind of story that's right up my alley, although the only thing missing is that it's not set in a fantasy world, it does have its own other world and I hope that it gets explored later. Magical elements inside grounded and mature stories are the best, I devour them. I hope to see more magic users as this series progresses.

The main relationship in this first book got to me, it was so wholesome to read their dynamic that it hurt. The flashbacks were placed at the right times providing stark contrasts to bring out a ton of emotion. An interest in psychology shows in this book and some of the characters' backgrounds and the way their mental health problems are dealt with has these little details that could hit close home to a lot of people. Some of the characters are close minded in contrast to the main ones and they reflect the kinds of people you could meet in real life. I am curious what other social issues the series will touch on later on.

I don't think there were moments that shocked me, but there were moving ones. The main lead Carrie usually says or does something relatable or says touching words. This book provides backstories and I hope they get relevance later on because they seemed purposeful.

The vegan parts are the best parts. It is so wild for them to happen in such a story and it really makes me conscious of how many times I read stories and nothing related to animal rights happened. It is also so nice for the animals to be so recognized in a book, there may be even a stronger focus later, but one animal had quite a strong presence.

This song in the novel captures the highlights well, it is a feeling that drives the whole plot and you can feel it linger everywhere:

“There's got to be more than this
There's got to be something else
There's got to be more
There's got to be more.
I want to see strange sights.
I want to see bright lights.
I want to see more.
I've got to see more.
There's something hidden deep beneath the darkness.
There's something there that I can't seem to find.
It calls to me from somewhere in the distance.
It tells me that the choice is only mine.
I want to do brave things.
I want to do great things.
I want to do more.
You know I've got to do more.
I want to be wiser.
I want to be stronger.
I want to be more.
Oh I need to be more.
There are other worlds behind the one we live in.
There are other worlds that we may never know.
We cower lost and scared within our cages.
Afraid to let the truth of ourselves show.”

I am very excited to find out where the story is heading and what turns it will take. I hope more people give it a chance.

Disclaimer: If you are a vegan brand I would totally love to wear, use your stuff, promote it, write poems about it and make content around it, haha. Hit me up.

This book lists lots of vegan fashion, make-up brands and also restaurants. It took me forever to read it because I wanted to track them all down on instagram and at least support them by following them. Instagram did not like that. Most of these are probably not places I will visit, see or even would like. Most of them do not contain that “wow” factor for me. Some of them are already closed down and out of business. This made me seek out so many restaurants I will definitely never visit (T^T) But wow some of them are really something, I am on a whole grain plant based diet now, but I would still like to try so much (T^T)

I prefer alternative and very distinct fashion, but these brands are more for more common styles. So it mostly doesn't appeal to me, but I still feel immense value from this and it feels like something I should at least know of or be able to inform other people of, people who would care more for this. I talked with some vegans about vegan fashion afterwards and I could at least say something about it.

I found out a lot about different faux furs and materials, I guess I just haven't been looking into this despite being vegan for 8 years. I would like to read something similar in the future. The cork material and just in general vegan materials look so unique and pretty, I love how distinct and non-samey they look.

It's so wild how even our clothes are so contaminated with toxicity. I mean everything is in the modern world, even the stuff we eat, but clothes are on us... Corpses inside, corpses outside?

There are so many names here I never heard of and it's exciting to open a door to this new world. I hope I continue discovering vegan brands. I wanna continue reading vegan books and support vegan authors, they just hit different. Love, love.

P.S. Now I have more cravings and wishes under capitalism, help. Maybe I should read that vegan minimalism stuff for balance? We will see.

The horror of this book is subtle and it popularized the concept of haunted house horror. Because the character exploration is its focus, it is more sad than scary.

Welcome to the Hill House, not sane, alone, might stand for another 80 years or so.

The writing style is odd and dream-like, purposefully hiding information, also it's a book from the 1950s, so in general, the way the characters interact can put people off. The novel takes away a lot of things you might want to know like character descriptions, only leaving you with the color of their sweater, the descriptions of the Hill House itself, you only vaguely understand how it is supposed to look. It sometimes jumps the scene forward, disorienting.

The atmosphere, the characters (the main character especially) are lovely. However, some characters that are introduced later on do not serve the plot. The ending is great, there's a build-up to it and it's bold.

There's something very familiar with the horror and sadness in this book for me, so it really worked. A lot of it is spent on the characters simply anticipating the horror and not a whole lot happening, but you also get to find out about the characters when they simply chat.

Oh in the name of— sadness, suffering and truth! Where have you been? Where have I not read you? My Cathy whom I actually love and adore, an extinguished fire that I trapped and gave no warmth!

So yea I really loved this book! This is my jam I think, it feels a bit amateurish or naive in the best way. It asked for things and I did not need to beg for them, it did more than I hoped. The ending was okay, but I don't care. The vibes! The vibes!!! This is like a depressed teen idolising some shadow of a dream!!  I love the themes, the discussion of death in various ways, I love how they are the highlights and not something else. The colours and the scenaries the protagonist paints! All this journey he despises, it is art and gosh is his understanding of art so odd. 

I grabbed a bunch of chilli pepper flakes and then shoved them on my meal to compliment this spice. I went on a walk and dreamt of impossible imagery and went beyond pain in my mind. I am so sad over this depressed twink doctor, why is life like this to him?? :(( If he was gay I would time travel and become fictional.Okay maybe I should stop writing these questionable things, but omg what a book :(( I will cry a river. You get me, you understand me. Maybe I should read some more morbid books like Anna Karerina, Nausea, something from Schopenhauer or something like that. Mood.

Edit on April 8th: I would like to mention that this discusses abortion and is considered antinatalist in parts. This is a book which highlighted those concepts and caused controversy in 1905.

I started reading this book last year and then put it on hold for almost a year.

I'm not exactly sure how to feel about it, the language is beautiful and I am sure there are a ton of hidden secrets and meanings in it, but reading a novel from such a dull and horrible character is not exactly enjoyable. There is something that makes me not want to analyze it that much. The deliusions at the start and the weird explanations of the acts that were to follow were fun. The way that traveling the country wasn't all that exciting was cool. The way the main character disregards the person that is Dolores was well executed. I did not notice some weird details about the characters attraction and what places he visited. I get this weird unexplainable feeling when I think about it which I learned always leads me giving a book 3 stars later.