“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.” The Secret History by Donna Tartt I’ve never experienced anything like this book in my entire life. Reading this book was so surreal, so hypnotic; it felt like a fever dream. I was caught in its enthralling web, so…
To say that this book broke my heart is an understatement. It did that, and more. It crushed it into oblivion, absolutely ground up its pieces. All because of the masterfully encrypted idea of helplessness, the idea that even if what is happening to us is so obviously unjust, we…