What are your top five favorite books? xx
ohhhhh shit i like this one !! (((im ashamed of myself i sent you such boring fruits and vegetables ask akdjfhjkfh i hope you’re not mad)
ok so in no particular order
1. i rly rly rly love All the lights we cannot see by Anthony Doerr bcs im a SLUT for anything ww2 related and his writing style is so vivid and fluid and capable of portraying a horrible truth through such gentle description and dialogue and i always imagine the characters as if they’re actual human beings i could have a conversation with and !!! i simply love his books, i’ve also read memory wall by him and i loved it as well!!!! i’d love to read all there is from him
2. hmmmm i guess Grief Is the Thing With Feathers bcs that shit was RAW and so so so amazingly grim and snarky and i love the mere idea of the plot so much, the characters were also so realistic, i borrowed it from my local library, sat down with it the minute i got home and read it in like, 3 hours or less??? and i CRIED like a lil bitch bcs it was so heartbreakingly amazing i just love that book and im so grateful to cillian murphy for introducing me into it through the play !!!
3. this is getting harder .... i guess tracy’s tiger bcs ... come on. i lack the words to describe it and do it justice at the same time while simultaneously dodge the ‘kinda like the little prince’ sentence bcs !!!! it’s so different and it tells a different story so i really can’t compare it but that was the first thing it reminded me of when i started reading it, the surrealism and the hidden meanings that aren’t really hidden, they’re based on the time of your life you choose to read the book and they always presently reflect what you’re willing and able to see yourself in and i just .. holy shit i LOVE the book even though i’d tried to read other books from william saroyan and i just ... didn’t like them at all. but yeah i’d love to reread tracy’s tiger again now!!
4. hmmmm.......... damn there are so many books i really can’t choose but yeah reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak when i was like, 13, 14? was pretty lifechanging and that’s where my passion and interest for reading and learning about the ww2 began i think, and i still have so much love for that book ... i also read The Messenger a few years after and loved it as well !!
5. hoo boy WHY DID MY BRAIN JUST LIKE, ERASE ANY BOOK I’VE EVER READ FROM MY MEMORY NOW THERE’S SO MUCH,
OH OH OH I KNOW AND THIS ONE IS PROBABLY RLY MY FAVOURITE, The Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys....... bcs .......... holy shit. i’ve read it twice and both times it was like, in 4 hours, absolutely breathless and just eating, ravishing the words bcs !!!!! she’s such an amazing writer and i crieeeddd so hard through the whole book basically, it’s about the ww2 (wow surprising) but particularly about the Wilhelm Gustloff ship’s catastrophe, the ship that carried about ten thousand war refugees from western Prussia, was torpedoed by a soviet submarine, sank, and became the catastrophe with the biggest number of victims = 9k and holy absolute JESUS i can’t BELIEVE it’s not more talked about?? of course i don’t know about the rest of the world but in my life i’ve never heard about it in history classes smh anyway i absolutely breathe for this book and it will always hold a sacred place in my heart !!!
hoooo boy thank you so much for the ask!!!!!
