Very glad of the recommendation: #alittlelife is a long melodramatic read; difficult in parts. It follows 4 friends starting adult life in NYC, each beautifully written but the story centres on Jude and a terrible past that impacts on them all. Touching & powerful. #nakedbookclub #nudereader #hardon

Quote from the book A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara- "And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him."

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Finished A Little Life this afternoon and feeling pretty hollow from it. Gonna need to take a little break from sad stories. Amazing novel with incredible characters that I don't think I'll ever forget.

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Nearly finished with A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and I just reached the final part. How TF you gonna do my beautiful boy Willem like that?! Idk if I can finish these last hundred pages!

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I hated the book A Little Life, both as a gay man and a therapist. Here is my quick breakdown of all the reasons why.

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Oops I liked it
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I knew ‘A little life’ was hard to read but I never imagined it would be that hard… I’m at that part of the book where you just can’t believe what you’re reading… yet you can’t put it down! #alittlelife

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A Little Life at 10, beautiful special edition #alittlelife #booksky 📚💙

Jude and Willem from Little Life chatting about Santiago Blues

Also did this pure sketchie ages ago when finished reading Hanya's a Little Life book. The Santiago Blues stuck with me between Jude and Willem.

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I’m ready to be hurt again 💔
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I’ve started reading ‘a little life’ and I am literally sighing every five minutes 😮‍💨

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One scene from A Little Life - Willem is in bed hugging Jude as if he's begging him to stay by his side for just five more minutes. They are both smiling and Jude is gently caressing Willem's cheek.

윌럼이 주드에게 5분만 더 곁에 있어달라고 조르는 장면은 책을 다 읽은 후에도 계속 기억에 남는다.
(커미션 크레페 - © 삐구님 BBIGU_U)
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Talvez eu também faça uma tatuagem do axioma, mas vai ser uma desigualdade, assim X ≠ X

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Scan of part of a page from the paperback of A Little Life (Picador, 2015), 210. The text is underlined in pencil:   He doesn’t know what makes him say what he does next: Is it empathy, as he hopes, or is it a boast, an alluding aloud to the improbable and wondrous turns his life has taken over the past month? “You know, Felix,” he begins, “I never had friends, either, not for a very long time, not until I was much older than you.” He can sense, rather than see, Felix become alert, can feel him listening. “I wanted them, too,” he continues, going slowly now, because he wants to make sure his words come out right. “And I always wondered if I would ever find any, and how, and when.” He traces his index finger across the dark walnut tabletop, up the spine of Felix’s math textbook, down his cold glass of water. “And then I went to college, and I met people who, for whatever reason, decided to be my friends, and they taught me-everything, really. They made me, and make me, into someone better than I really am.   “You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad-or good-it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”   They’re both quiet for a long time, listening to the click of the metronome, which is faulty and sometimes starts ticking spontaneously, even after he’s stopped it. “You’re going to make friends, Felix,” he says, finally. “You will. You won’t have to work as hard at finding them as you will at keeping them, but I promise, it’ll be work worth doing. . . .”

Scan of part of a page from the paperback of A Little Life (Picador, 2015), 225. The text is underlined in pencil:   Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.

Apropos of nothing... (It's #FriendshipDay.)

💙📚 Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Picador, 2015), 210; 225.

a chimpanzee is laying on a couch and pointing at a book . ALT: a chimpanzee is laying on a couch and pointing at a book .

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is a book that I will never re-read again not because it's bad, but about the struggle of the LGBTQ+ identity in oneself. Beautifully written and hauntingly sad, I find myself sympathizing with the main character and how I feel his regret and trauma. #ALittleLife

I finished the most depressing book I’ve ever read two hours and not even watching The Nanny right now is brightening me up. Damn you Dua Lipa and your book club! You and that author are keeping me up! Good book but damn, how sad! #Service95 #ALittleLife #HanyaYanagihara

This book is starting to remind me of #ALittleLife and ain't nobody got time for that #TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow

10 Novels That Are Almost Too Dark To Adapt Into Film From outright mythical works like Blood Meridian to more recent examples like Tampa, these novels are simply too dark to ever be adapted into film.

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Controversial take - I didn’t gel with this one. Nearly 2 hrs into the audio and I’ve DNFd it.

I know this is loved by a lot of readers - please don’t throw hate my way 😬

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Hanya’s Boys The novelist tends to torture her gay male characters — but only so she can swoop in to save them.

Today I discovered Andrea Long Chu and her review of #aLittleLife, which put into words my feelings about the book. I was not a fan. #bookSky www.vulture.com/article/hany...

Taking breaks from polishing my manu to read this…

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Now, don’t get your bloomers in a twist. These are my opinions, not yours. If I say something you don’t like, keep scrolling.
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Good Morning from London

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Watching a review of #alittlelife and it's definitely my favorite contemporary book.

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starting late this hurtful journey
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alright. Just finished A Little Life. Easily one of the most devastating books I’ve ever read. Beautiful, brutal, and never-ending. Hanya doesn’t just write— she dragged me through it. I thought it would break me, but somehow I just kept pushing. Kinda like Jude. #BookSky #ALittleLife