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Thank you, @tlcbooktours and @williammorrowbooks, for my copy of #IHaveBeenBuriedUnderYearsofDust!
2768 steps with a 2000’ elevation gain in only 0.88 miles. ⛰
Piranesi was an 18th century Italian artist and architect who drew fictional prisons with endless rooms, halls, and staircases. He divided these rooms into thirds – the bottom third was underwater, the top third was in the clouds, and the middle third is where humans lived. This setting is the backdrop of Clarke’s novel, Piranesi.
Whoa…what in the world?! 🤯 Somehow this book was written in 1932, yet strangely feels like it could have been written yesterday. 🤨In a Brave New World, Huxley imagines what a world would look like where individualism is gone 👯‍♀️, everyone is happy all the time 🙃, and decisions are made for us 🥴. It’s a bleak world – one I hope to never see – yet there are so many similarities to our current reality that it literally scares me! 😱
I avoided this book for awhile now, despite the many recommendations and positive reviews I saw. Listen, I love a grief book almost more than anything else, but I have to be in the right headspace. And for whatever reason, most of my nonfiction reads so far this year are heavy and I just couldn’t time my mood.
If I was rating my reading week based off the covers alone, it would have been a 5🌟 week! These covers are gorgeous (and they compliment each other quite nicely, too!) 😍

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