#oh the amount of strongly-worded essays ive written........ i talked so much shit in dutch class dsfkgjdhskfj

[darcyolsson]

10, 32, 42, 107 for the book ask? <3

10. a book that got you through something solitaire by alice oseman really made my 15 year old depressed, lonely self feel more seen than any other book ever could and i am eternally grateful for that. i reread it a short while ago and i couldn't even recognise myself in the pages

32. your favourite nonfiction novel i hardly ever read nonfiction, but i really enjoyed dodie's memoir secrets for the mad! i have loved her music for a very long time and grew up watching her videos on youtube. it was super interesting to have some more background to her music and artistic development.

42. a book that made you want to scream by the time you got to the end i'm sure there's more but the first one that jumps to mind is they both die at the end by adam silvera......... like it does exactly what it says on the tin so i truly had no right being this surprised but like???????

107. your favourite book in a different language i don't really read in my native language since i don't really know where to start- i don't know any people under 50 and over 8 who read in dutch. i read some dutch literature for school and virtually none of the books i read weren't blatantly racist, misogynist, homophobic, or all of the above (even when i refused to read any books by cishet men in my last year lol)

i'll have to go with twee vrouwen (two women) by harry mulisch, which is an.. alright novel about a lesbian relationship based on the myth of orpheus and eurydice. also, this was released in 1975, so one of the biggest authors writing a book about wlw was like, a Thing. it's full of bad sterotypes and tropes but honestly????? the toxic cishet relationship being a toxic lesbian relationship instead was sort of nice <3

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#english speaking countries you dont know how GOOD u have it with ur jane austens and charlotte brontës.......... #this is not me being hashtag different or narrow minded or whatever i genuinely do think a lot of dutch literature straight up sucks #oh the amount of strongly-worded essays ive written........ i talked so much shit in dutch class dsfkgjdhskfj #answered asks #jimmyricci