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📚 currently crashing out, no good books in sight: book recs

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someone please explain  

why I walked into the bookstore  

with a full heart and empty hands  

and walked out with nothing but disappointment (and maybe a iced tea).  


I’ve been searching maybe even yearning..for a book that feels like  

✨ rainy days  

✨ meaningful glances  

✨ poetic pain and soft joy  

✨ maybe a little messed up in a beautiful way  

and NOTHING is hitting.


how am I supposed to live, laugh, love  

when the bookshelves are full of bland titles  

and I crave soul-crushing, underlined in pencil, hug to my chest kind of reads?


if you have any recs that feel like  

Dead Poets Society x Gilmore Girls x slight existential crisis,  

please send them to me before I spiral into rereading old Tumblr posts like it’s 2013.

I'm also into dark themes like Hannibal, psychological thriller type


ok that’s all,  

going to go lie down with dramatic music now ♡

-Clairetta 


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I'd totally recommend "the perks of being a wallflower or looking for alaska" if you're looking for sad but comforting vibes, then "girl in pieces and zoo station" for heart-wretching books that talk about addictions (a little life too, but i never fished it bc it was just too much), i'd aslo recommend solitaire by alice oseman (and the entire hearstopper series) if you want some melanchonic and bittersweet vibes, hope this helps<333


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lwky don't know how to reply to replies on this website but ill definitely give your book rec's a go!! I've also already read a little life and loved it to be honest, honestly one of the best written books ive read<3 

I've also read heartstopper as well!!

-Clairetta 


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if not yet read, maybe crime and punishment by dostoevsky


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Maybe a little out there, but I've been reading The blind earthworm in the labyrinth and I'm only a quarter through but i love it so much. Its a Thai book that got translated to English and the translators kept the poetics of Thai throughout. It kind of reads like fiction told through poetry which threw me off a little at first but the way everything is described is so beautiful! i saw it described as kinda telanovela-ey which i can see but i super recommend it!


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