why does everyone love this book? i can’t get into it. i’m not familiar enough with the folk/fairy tale(s?) and i think i keep accidentally skipping little chunks of text because something happens and then i’m stuck wondering when the hell it did because i don’t remember reading it i’m also not into excessively flowery prose. when valente isn’t constructing these dense, adjective-infused paragraphs, i don’t entirely h8 it, tho. there’s a silly passage mocking ~gender normz~ which i appreciate “Marya Morevna! Don’t you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention! Safe in a house and a husband, that’s where you belong! But it’s too late now, too late! Fool child, the house and I tried so hard to raise you right!” but i just can’t find myself to care about marya or anyone else and i want it to end because i am so bored 

why does everyone love this book? i can’t get into it. i’m not familiar enough with the folk/fairy tale(s?) and i think i keep accidentally skipping little chunks of text because something happens and then i’m stuck wondering when the hell it did because i don’t remember reading it

i’m also not into excessively flowery prose. when valente isn’t constructing these dense, adjective-infused paragraphs, i don’t entirely h8 it, tho. there’s a silly passage mocking ~gender normz~ which i appreciate

“Marya Morevna! Don’t you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention! Safe in a house and a husband, that’s where you belong! But it’s too late now, too late! Fool child, the house and I tried so hard to raise you right!”

but i just can’t find myself to care about marya or anyone else and i want it to end because i am so bored 

Feb. 22 2012
#books! #sigh #deathless #catherynne m. valente
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  1. poopballs reblogged this from poopballs and added:
    i am trying to finish this book and i’m in the last 15% but as i am reading i just have this image of me in my mind’s...
  2. kynodontas said: interestingggg. ‘cause yeah i’ve heard lots of ~good things~ from people whose tastes i generally trust but idk. i’ma always be a skeptic ‘til i know for suresy
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