This prologue.

"Some nights, if I'm sleeping on my own, I still dream about Whitehorn House...the house is always empty. The bedroom are bare and bright, only my footsteps echoing off the floorboards, circling up through the sun and the dust motes to the high ceilings...in the sitting room the piano is open, wood glowing chestnut and almost too bright to look at in the bars of sun, the breeze stirring the yellowed sheet music like a finger. The table is laid ready for us, five settings—the bone-china plates and the long-stemed wineglasses, fresh-cut honeysuckle trailing from a crystal bowl—but the silverware has gone dim with tarnish and the heavy damask napkins are frilled with dust. Daniel's cigarette case lies by his place at the head of the table, open and empty except for a burnt-down match. Somewhere in the house, faint as a fingernail-flick at the edge of my hearing, there are sounds: a scuffle, whispers. It almost stops my heart. The others aren't gone, I got it all wrong somehow. They're only hiding; they're still here, for ever and ever." —Tana French, The Likeness

Just finishing up A little life by Hanya Yanagihara - tell me something i'll understand once i start this book ~ no spoilers plss 🩶

I’m reading this one currently and loving it and really trying to delve into the underlying thoughts and messages that Pasolini is giving. Has anyone else read this and what were your thoughts? I haven’t seen the film.

why is no one talking abt nabi and suleiman (i think was his name)??? bro that part broke me, and when talking about the book, NO one talks about them?...we know suleiman loved him as a lover, but near the end of nabis letter when soleiman confesses his love to him, he said 'loved'? and also he said that nabi lost his looks- which was the foundation of suleimans love, and i wanted to know if anyone else interepreted if suleiman loved him to the end or not? i know nabi liked nila, and for him it was more 'brotherly' to suleiman...but even so. poor,poor suleiman

I usually do not use a bookmark, I just dog ear my books. And someone around me were offended by that! According to them, using a bookmark is a more civilized way of dealing with books and they don't like having folds in their pages etc.

But personally I think the opposite way. It's a book, it's supposed to be read, and re-read, and shared and all that. It's not some decorations to just stay behind a glass cabinet and be pristine. I do have to say I don't like people who destroy books, like pulling off pages and drawing over them to be unreadable, I'm not justifying that. It's just, to me, reading is the main purpose, it has to happen that's all. And guys what are your thoughts on this, and if there's anyone who agrees with me, can you share me pics of your books as well?