favourite books, zero objectivity
cozy reads, extreme loyalty
touch them and we fight
"As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve." thats all
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games Trilogy 1)
“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.” Thats all
Catching Fire (Hunger Games, Book 2)
“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.” thats all
Mockingjay (Hunger Games Trilogy Part III)
“What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness” thats all
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Hunger Games)
“know that every year for my birthday, I will get a new pair of tributes, one girl and one boy, to mentor to their deaths. Another sunrise on the reaping.” thats all
And yes read it in this order
Sunrise on the Reaping (Hunger Games)
“I wanted to fight all her battles. I wanted to give her all her smiles and make her laugh and snatch her away from the rest of the world and keep her all to myself. I just wanted her. For keeps.” thats all
Binding 13
set in Nazi Germany, girl steals books to learn how to read, hides a Jew and is narrated by Death if that doesn’t intrigue you….
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives b...
Animal Farm
TW: SA but a beautiful story of learning and coming to terms that abuse isn’t love
My Dark Vanessa
I WILL DEFEND KYA fight me
Where the Crawdads Sing
amazing essays from a literature student at uni really helped me define how I read and why
A Room of One's Own
“It was the exercise of my power that attracted me most.” thats all
Notes from the Underground
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." thats all
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it” that’s all
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.”
The Go-Between (Penguin Modern Classics)
“ Nobody dies from lack of sex, it is lack of love we die from." thats all
