still thinking about this book. i don't think i'll ever recover from it. #booktwt #alittlelife

are you ready for the february edition of the literary crossword? 🔗katerinascommonplace.substack.com/p/the-february…

why am i ugly crying in the middle of the day?

cr: heart the lover by lily king

★★★★★ i loved this book so much. i read it in a day and i ugly-cried my way through it and i want to inject it in my veins now

me with "heart the lover" ever since that first sentence: "you knew i'd write a book about you someday" 🥲

anyone read "half his age" already?

excuse me?

when did "I couldn't see myself in the main character" become a reason to put a book down? new essay exploring what relatability replaced and why it matters 🔗katerinascommonplace.substack.com/p/what-we-talk…

★★★★☆ i don't think i had the intention nor did i realize that i would start caring for william stoner as much as i ended up caring and rooting for him. a novel about an unremarkable life told so beautifully it makes you wonder whether any life is truly unremarkable.

anyone have half hisage epub that’s not all effed up? 👀

days after i read it, this book is still with me. so, i tried to put all my thoughts of it in this book review (spoiler free as much as i could) 🔗katerinascommonplace.substack.com/p/someday-we-w…

Love buying second hand books and reading the annotations. Like yes stranger I agree — it’s never too late to open up to what others leave for you!

he failed as a son, husband, father, lover, even scholar. and yet he never turned bitter. not once. my thoughts on “stoner”: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/katerinasc…

cr: slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion

★★★★☆ at the risk of not having anything else to compare this book to, I am going to give it 4 stars. certain essays inside touched me immensely. others were not as impactful. but Didion has a very unique voice and I enjoyed it so much. <3

guys, i think i'm about to start "madonna in a fur coat" FINALLY! 🥹

jumping on the five-star book tag trend books i thought would be five stars and were, books i thought would be five stars but weren't, books that unexpectedly turned out to be five stars, books on my TBR i think will be five stars 🔗katerinascommonplace.substack.com/p/the-five-sta…

cr: madonna in a fur coat by sabahattin ali