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My favourite books of 2025 and some honourable mentions ♡

@pearlreads_ adding the third one to my tbr 📝

the three horsemen of delusional male characters in love white nights by fyodor dostoevsky first love by ivan turgenev the sorrows of young werther

Melancholy I-II: MASTERPIECE. Never have I read a more convincing stream-of-consciousness of someone utterly drowning in obsessive, repetitive thoughts and compulsive behavior. (I say this as someone who suffers from OCD). Also, the schizophrenia, time jumps, and Oline... 🤯😭.

Kinokuniya, Friday evening rush hour, my favourite asam laksa. It’s been awhile

Finished. A quietly compelling work, made all the more resonant in light of the ongoing US–Israel attacks on Iran with its reminder that "...democracy has to come from within, it doesn’t work when another country imposes it on you from outside."

I miss Gabi. I wish things had been different. I don't usually let myself linger on the what ifs but this time it’s hard not to.

Me: Aku sempurna kan minggu ni Faz: Kau Tawau

@yangcuddygf ❤️ Loved Sula and The Bluest Eye. Can’t wait to read this one. I’m just waiting for the right time to pick it up.

reading beloved and while not an easy book but such a thing of beauty that in a story of so much pain i have read the most gorgeous lines about cooking and food and nature and people trying to live TONI MORRISON FOREVER

It’s been a month since you crossed the rainbow bridge. Rest easy, Gabi. My happy, silly baby. I miss you so much.

@literaturebells i love it here, it’s so cozy & spacious! i pernah buat kerja situ sampai 2:30 pagi because they opened until 3am masa bulan puasa on the weekend 😆

Cafe stop at Cyberjaya, a quaint cafe called Neibour Cafe. Love the cozy vibe and the small section of bookshelves with mostly local books. The coffee is good too✨️

@dieypository Kita dengan Taiwan Travelogue

Absolutely floored by She Who Remains, loved On Earth As It Is Beneath as well, on the fence about The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran and probably need to try harder with Taiwan Travelogue. Will meet The Director and The Witch in due time.

Still keen to read Small Comfort, The Wax Child, The Remembered Soldier and The Deserters though.

The shortlist for the International Booker Prize 2026 is out. Absolutely loved She Who Remains and On Earth As It Is Beneath. Quite undecided about The Director though I see why it’s admired by many. Still reading The Nights Are Quite in Tehran.

Title mention. I’m thoroughly enjoying this

edvard munch's shores

@dieypository hm 😞

@Neboo94 kalau tak jumpa grater, kita bakal menghadapi Great Famine.

“Abang nampak tak grater?” “Greta Thunberg?”

"The sniper who shot my friend Jihan's 3 year old daughter Noor, shattering her tiny legs while she was in her mother's arms in Gaza, is a hateful, racist ghoul -- I understand that's one of the things I've been criticized for saying. And I double up on it, frankly. But the rage, the disgust even hatred that Jihan or I feel toward that sniper is not racism. It is not anti-Jewishness. It is not anti semitism. Nor are her feelings toward the tank operator who blew out the back of her son Arhab's head, making her fingers sink into his brains when she tried to pick him up. Our feelings or words in response to 78 years of this barbaric, colonial violence are not 'reprehensible.' They are not antisemitic. And they are not anti Jewish. In fact, despite everything they have done to us -- despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Jews both inside & outside of Israel support this zionist carnage & domination -- we still have the tender human sense to recognize those Jews, however a minority they may be, who do not support Israel. And to embrace the far smaller minority who are anti zionist, in fact."

Day 7 ❤️‍🩹

Since ch 4, it’s been one massacre and expulsion after another. Was horrified to read about Dawaymeh at the end of ch 8. This massacre, maybe worse than Deir Yassin was mostly hidden as the Arab Legion concealed the news, likely fearing another refugee wave and blame for inaction

Ch 5 is quite plainly one of the most distressing things I’ve read. The harrowing account of the displacement, the hesitant responses within the Arab world compounded by Jordan's collusion with the Zionists and the grave neglect and failure by the UN and the British authorities

Ilan Pappe's writing is so precise and straightforward it makes the entire thing feel even more heinous and chilling cr The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Anticipatory grief is a horrible, horrible thing.