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Day 11 - #Arrival #AcrossApril
#TheEnigmaOfArrival #VSNaipaul

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The story of a writer's singular journey—from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another—this is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.

Read this in 2015. #1001BooksToReadBeforeYouDie

A friend recommended this to me as ‘a very beautiful book about very lonely people‘ and he was absolutely right. This prose, the slow emotional shifts across minutely observed landscapes, was absolutely perfect and exactly what I needed in a bad anxiety time. I wasn‘t in much of a state to appreciate it on lots of levels but letting the writing and the characters wash over me was wonderful, a much needed respite for me.

My anxiety is double plus ungood atm 😬 I‘m really grateful for all my coping skills but it puts me in a weird position of spending five hours breathing very oddly while my brain goes ‘this is fine, I‘ve got through this before‘, I know it‘ll be okay but don‘t know how to get there. I‘m in a reading slump as it‘s so hard to concentrate rn. Flat hunting in London is a worse process than I thought and it‘s taken all of my energy and resilience

#7covers7days #covercrush

Day 1

Thank you for tagging me @Hooked_on_books I thought i‘d start with my current read which I find incredibly gorgeous! I love this wistful minimalist cover, I like white books a lot I‘ve realised thinking about this challenge.

@moll care to join? 7 covers you think are beautiful, one a day for 7 days 🥰