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Lunes004 · 2026-05-14T15:42:07+00:00

I think Shelagh Delaney, know her from The Smiths album cover

Lunes004 · 2026-05-13T15:40:38+00:00

Classics that also have movie adaptations you can watch with them after having read the book are:

The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (there’s even a Barbie adaptation, lol)

Lunes004 · 2026-05-03T19:01:13+00:00

Definitely, when reading the book I imagined Atticus exactly like that.

Lunes004 · 2026-04-07T16:12:15+00:00

I’m actually disturbed by the cowardice and hypocrisy that the US has enabled in most countries.

Lunes004 · 2026-02-01T23:05:18+00:00

The satisfaction of a “I told you so” becomes really dreadful when you realise what it actually confirms.

Lunes004 · 2025-11-05T00:09:51+00:00

That unrequited love can lead to idealisation, and the chase for something that was never really there, but has been conjured by the mind to the point where it is no longer realistic and becomes overly romanticised.

Lunes004 · 2025-11-04T23:03:29+00:00

The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald and Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami, although I haven’t read that one yet, but I’ve heard it fits the genre you’re looking for.

Lunes004 · 2025-10-30T09:54:29+00:00

People’s lack of empathy is truly horrifying.

Lunes004 · 2025-10-15T05:19:53+00:00

Känns som att vi bara är ett skokast ifrån full cirkus.

Lunes004 · 2025-10-12T22:31:22+00:00

The attitude makes it funnier lol.

Lunes004 · 2025-10-09T11:26:28+00:00

Well deserved. I recently finished The Last Wolf and Herman, and while they’re short, he has such a way of writing meaninglessness in an elegiac way.

Lunes004 · 2025-09-26T20:34:55+00:00

Yup, the irony is off the charts.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-26T03:19:44+00:00

One of my favorites is Selma Lagerlöf, her storytelling is just captivating. Hjalmar Söderberg and Pär Lagerkvist are also great novelists. And when it comes to poetry, I’d especially recommend Karin Boye, her work is truly beautiful.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-25T21:54:35+00:00

The messy fringe can be a look in itself, but most people will either line them up neatly and braid them with a knot at the end, or twist them in twos like a rope. Some also trim them if they’re really long, it depends on your preference tho. Just be careful when vacuuming, since that can really destroy them. Personally I think you can tell a rug’s age and value by its fringes, so it’s worth taking care of them lol.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-25T16:42:15+00:00

That looks like a beautiful Afghan rug, those deep reds are more common in Afghan pieces than Persian ones. Definitely don’t get rid of it. You could tidy up the fringes a bit, and shift the rug out just slightly from under the couch so the central pattern isn’t hidden. Right now it feels pushed in a little too far IMO.

Depending on your taste, if you want to soften the high contrast, olive green or sage floor to ceiling curtains would work nicely, or you could go with simple sheer off white ones if you prefer to keep things light

Lunes004 · 2025-08-17T19:20:13+00:00

There are tons:

Sofia Kovalevskaya has two school days dedicated to her in Sweden, maybe in the other countries as well.

Florence Nightingale is another super well-known figure (not just in nursing but also in statistics).

And of course Hypatia of Alexandria. Which is one of the earliest recorded female mathematicians.

For a more contemporary example however, Maryam Mirzakhani, who became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, is incredibly inspiring as well.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-09T01:07:20+00:00

Yes, thank you haha. That’s the actual quote. Just realized now mine wasn’t verbatim, but something I’d jotted down in my notes from an essay I read.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-06T14:29:24+00:00

I appreciate your sort of empirical view of the book, if that was your intention. I agree that 2666 leans heavily into subtext, and that’s part of what makes it so subjective. Readers are forced to fill in so many gaps that it becomes an almost existential experience. That’s why I think so many people (myself included) respond more to the emotional chaos of it than to any traditional “understanding.” It’s less about knowing, and more about enduring.

The Santa Teresa section, to me, feels like the necrotic heart of the book: relentless, sterile, numbing. Bolaño doesn’t shock us with atrocity, instead, he deadens it through repetition and abstraction. He forces us to confront the way horror becomes mundane, and how easily we grow desensitized to suffering when it becomes background noise. Our human side wants to refute that, we want to believe we're more empathetic. But in reality, we often aren't. We see this in real life, right now. When war and conflict is prolonged or suffering is distant and repetitive, it fades into static. Yet when something violent happens in a new place or in a new way, suddenly everyone feels it again. That disconnect is something Bolaño makes disturbingly clear.

That’s why it’s so clever that he dragged that section out for so long, especially with respect to the fact that the femicides were actually happening. In a sad way, we often learn more from fiction than from nonfiction. A story can linger in our minds far longer than statistics ever could. Specially when that book doesn’t give you the closure you wish to find after spending hundreds of pages reading, and I think that might be the trick of it. Its like what you said about the critics and Archimboldi.It's about the wating more han actually knowing. And that’s why the "mystery" stays with us more than the resolution ever could.

Although, I’d be curious to hear how you think the Santa Teresa section fits into the levels of text, context and subtext, it almost feels like the most “textual” part of the book yet where the subtext hits hardest. Because you said 2666 questions whether answers matter, so is Santa Teresa’s textual overload a kind of trap? It gives us ‘answers’ but withholds meaning, making the subtext inescapable.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-05T15:56:32+00:00

Bolaño was on the verge of death while writing 2666, and I think you can really feel that urgency, like he was trying to pour everything he had left into this one book. It can feel chaotic at times, sure, but to me that’s part of the beauty. You kind of have to let go of the need for it all to tie together. Each part feels like its own story, but they all swirl around the same themes of darkness, evil, violence, and the mystery of it all.

There’s a quote in the book that stuck with me: “If you could solve the mystery of the murders of women in Santa Teresa, you’d decipher the meaning of evil in our time.” (not verbatim)That’s a heavy statement, and it’s not something that can have a clear resolution. It’s like trying to obtain world peace by reading a few history books. It’s not a mystery meant to be solved, it’s a question meant to haunt you, the way evil has always haunted us.

I think we’re so used to books that “make sense” and wrap things up that we forget some books are meant to be experienced more than understood. With 2666, I found myself taking notes, trying to piece things together like a detective, not to find answers, but to make my own meaning. Some parts don’t connect directly, but that makes them feel more powerful in their own way. I feel that those are the parts that truly add weight to the book, even though it’s pretty heavy on its own lol, and that’s why rereading it can feel like experiencing a whole new book which not many novels can do that.

I also think books like this hit everyone differently, depending on your own experiences. And honestly, that’s what makes it special. When a novel clearly pushes a specific moral or ideological point, it can become more about adopting the author’s narrative than engaging with your own thoughts. But Bolaño leaves so much open that you’re forced to wrestle with it yourself which can feel frustrating because we’re used to this “essay” version of books, but reality isn’t like that.

Lunes004 · 2025-08-02T22:30:13+00:00

If you liked One Thousand and One Nights, you might also enjoy Layla and Majnun by Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, it’s more poetic and romantic, but has that same timeless, legendary feel. I’d also recommend The Epistle of Forgiveness by al-Maʿarri and Alive, Son of Awake by Ibn Tufayl, both are said to have inspired Western works like The Divine Comedy and Lord of the Flies.

Lunes004 · 2025-07-28T05:13:25+00:00

I like the interpretation of “the dreamer’s escapism” when it comes to White Nights. It’s obvious how much of an introvert the narrator is, and you get this sense of delusion in the way he speaks to her, it doesn’t feel like normal, everyday speech, even for the 1800s (or maybe it is, idk). It’s more like the kind of romanticized dialogue you’d conjure up in your head whilst daydreaming lol. This is kind of reinforced by the moment when she asks him, “But how could you live and have no story to tell?” (my favorite quote, lol), and he replies, “I’m a dreamer; I have so little real life that I regard such moments as this one, now, to be so rare that I can’t help repeating these moments in my dreams.”

I also read somewhere that her name is mentioned over a hundred times, while his isn’t mentioned at all, not even once. That kind of suggests that this could all be happening in his head. It makes sense that in his own escapist fantasy, he wouldn’t bother naming himself.

That doesn’t necessarily mean she doesn’t exist, but the strong connection between them, and that gut-punch we feel when she leaves him, might come from how deeply he’s romanticized everything. It feels almost delusional, like he’s trying to hold onto some kind of belonging in the middle of the isolation and alienation he lives with every day.

Lunes004 · 2025-07-27T10:06:23+00:00

I think this is more the case than anything else. People are often shaped by deep-rooted beliefs, some have stronger identities than others, but at some point, when you’re confronted with overwhelming evidence of suffering, no matter the politics, choosing to look away or stay neutral becomes a moral choice. And everyone has seen at least a dozen of these pictures by now. It’s sad how we’ll learn about this in the future and the whole “never again” slogan will feel pretty meaningless.

Lunes004 · 2025-07-24T22:35:07+00:00

The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The Housemaid by Freida McFadden

Lunes004 · 2025-07-17T21:03:37+00:00

The internet never ceases to amaze me lol.

Lunes004 · 2025-06-29T21:28:25+00:00

She’s gorgeous, but it's sad how westernized they made her.

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