📚 Starting a thread to track my reading journey — I’ll keep updating it as long as I’m here on Mastodon.
Right now I’m about to finish Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto Death (having already read Fear and Trembling, which I’ll reflect on alongside it). I’m also working through Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Barthes’ Mythologies, and an intro to medieval philosophy (Basic Concepts).
I’ll be dropping thoughts, quotes, and reflections here as I go — philosophy, literature, history, whatever’s on my shelf.
“She is my light, my holy one... Am I worthy of such love?”
Dostoevsky doesn’t just write about love — he unravels it.
Guilt, awe, longing, shame, reverence — all crashing out of one man’s soul.
I have nothing to add except:
I’m still waiting on it.
Such love to find me.
#Dostoevsky #TheBrothersKaramazov #Literature #Love #Longing #SoulLaidBare
Just read Ch. 6 of Book 10 (Precocity) in The Brothers Karamazov and it might be one of my favorite character dynamics in the whole book.
14-year-old Kolya plays the revolutionary wise-ass — “Christ would’ve joined the movement!” — while Alyosha just listens and responds with calm, quiet conviction.
Kolya: “We’ll either become close friends at once, forever… or part as mortal enemies.”
Alyosha: “Even if everyone is like that, do not be like that.”
There’s real moral clarity in that line. Be honest, even if no one else is. Especially then.
#Karamazov #Dostoevsky #AmReading #RussianLit #BrothersKaramazov #BookToot
Finished The Brothers Karamazov while in a crisis center. Not rehab, but close. Six days. Six hundred spirals. One Russian novel.
Final thoughts?
• Smerdyakov is a piece of shit
• Mitya’s chaotic but not hopeless
• Ivan’s smarter but sadder
• Alyosha’s the only one who gets it
It’s messy. And I like mess.
If you like gossip, guilt, tea, theology, murder, daddy issues, and courtroom drama — this book is for you.
#Karamazov #Dostoevsky #MentalHealthReads #RussianLit #MessyBooks
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