Kit

@an_ordinary_tuesdayJoined September 2025

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

Lists: 2
Reviews: 23
Books shelved: 69
Followers: 14
Following: 10

Reviews

Nineteen Eighty-four reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
6 out of 10
A Warning carved in cold stone.
Nineteen Eighty-four
5 readers agree with this review
H Is for Hawk reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
A hawk and a dead father.
H Is for Hawk
Siddhartha reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
The river is the best character in it and I mean that as the highest praise.
Siddhartha
2 readers agree with this review
The Waste Land reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
7 out of 10
April is the cruellest month and this is the cruellest poem, and I mean that with love and a great deal of confusion.
The Waste Land
Devotions reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? I have been asked worse questions.
Devotions
12 readers agree with this review
Middlemarch reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
Dorothea deserved better.
Middlemarch
7 readers agree with this review
Stoner reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
10 out of 10
It took my legs out from under me.
Stoner
Giovanni’s Room reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
10 out of 10
Ten out of ten and it hurt the whole way.
Giovanni’s Room
Autobiography of Red reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
A red winged monster with a broken heart and a camera. I have never read anything like it and I am still a bit dizzy.
Autobiography of Red
1 reader agrees with this review
Beloved reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
The past comes back with a body and a name and sits down in the house. Enormously powerful. I found the timeline hard to hold, and that is my failing rather than hers.
Beloved
Piranesi reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. I have copied that into the front of my notebook.
Piranesi
1 reader agrees with this review
The Road reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
Ash, ash, ash, and the boy.
The Road
The Stranger reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday. I have not stopped turning that opening over since March; the rest never quite catches up to it, but what an opening.
The Stranger
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
A crow made of Grief itself, literally hopping about the flat. Strange and brave and I didn't follow all of it, which is fine; not everything is for following.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Man's Search for Meaning reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
10 out of 10
He who has a Why can bear any How. Nietzsche said that, and Frankl proves it. I read this in one sitting and I have not been the same person since; it is a small book carrying an entire cathedral inside it.
Man's Search for Meaning
Cheer Up Love reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
10 out of 10
A warm hand on the shoulder and also a scalpel. She takes the Black Dog for a walk and makes you laugh at it; I cried on the 47 bus and did not care who saw.
Cheer Up Love
Quiet reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
An introvert's Rosetta Stone. I saw myself on nearly every page and I didn't always enjoy the view.
Quiet
Bluets reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
Little numbered fragments about the colour blue that are somehow, secretly, entirely about a man who left. I read it twice in one weekend. Twice!
Bluets
A Moveable Feast reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
7 out of 10
I went to Paris for the hunger and stayed for the score-settling, which is nobody's idea of a holiday.
A Moveable Feast
1 reader agrees with this review
Crime and Punishment reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
8 out of 10
A young man's conscience eating him alive from the inside out over one long hot summer. The epilogue redeemed it for me; my book group thought the epilogue ruined it. We are still arguing in the car park.
Crime and Punishment

Reviews

Nineteen Eighty-four reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

H Is for Hawk reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Siddhartha reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

The Waste Land reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Devotions reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Middlemarch reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Stoner reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Giovanni’s Room reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Autobiography of Red reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Beloved reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Piranesi reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

The Road reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

The Stranger reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Man's Search for Meaning reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Cheer Up Love reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Quiet reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Bluets reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

A Moveable Feast reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Crime and Punishment reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Reviews

Nineteen Eighty-four reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

H Is for Hawk reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Siddhartha reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

The Waste Land reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Devotions reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Middlemarch reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Stoner reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Giovanni’s Room reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Autobiography of Red reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Beloved reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Piranesi reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

The Road reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

The Stranger reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Grief Is the Thing with Feathers reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Man's Search for Meaning reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Cheer Up Love reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Quiet reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Bluets reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

A Moveable Feast reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Crime and Punishment reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday