okay before you say anything- ik its terribly excruciating and arduous to read a gazillion pages about how a certain fella cant go to sleep properly, but STICK WITH IT TRUST ME. Reading Proust is like having an extremely sugary tart. Yes too much of it can be sickening and nauseating, but yet you’ll still crave for it for some reason (just realised im only speaking on behalf of my fellow sweet toothed people, but hopefully u get my point lol). Yes, you won’t remember the start of every sentence and you will be baffled by what the guy’s trying to say at times, but he’ll still lure u in, cuz he’ll remind u why u fell in love with literature in the first place.
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I'm ngl I've forgotten many parts of the story, I dozed off in others, and it was difficult to understand but I still really enjoyed the experience of reading Swann's Way. Now that we're in the middle of summer I'm remembering this book because that's the season where it takes place. I long for my summers to be as languid as I felt it was in the book, where I can just lounge around outside, take strolls, and be curious about strangers. Speaking of taking strolls, that part of the book where Marcel takes evening walks with his family felt startingly personal because I do the same every single dayyy. When I graduate I'm going to miss all these mundane routines with family and current life in general. Reading Swann's Way is comforting for me and I wish transported into that world. I'm definitely going to re-read it and I also have the other books to slowly get through. If anyone has any similar books to recommend please lmk!!
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