reverie of a single soul

💓march 24, 2021: book boyfriends are legit💓

TW - suicidal thoughts, mental health issues (esp. depression)

(written: July 9, 2021)
*inhales*

It's been a phat minute since I last posted here. Because surprise surprise, I graduated a few weeks ago!

(With a Bachelor of Arts, even though my major is Applied CS, and I double-minored in Math and Economics, but, oh well.)

(You can see the progression from my few CS classes in sophomore year up to basically all the time in senior year.)

I got through my capstone and the symposium. People seemed to like my project and what I did! And my poster got a 96%!!!!!

*inhales, exhales*

Okay. On to the main topic.

OH👏🏽 KAY👏🏽

OHHHHhhh my god. I'm very nervous to share this.

You know the time I said in a previous chapter that:

"Who else do you know that makes red-marker hearts all over their fictional crush's name appearing as a station on an old, tattered subway map from 2016?"

Yeah, that's - that's not a joke. 😳 (if you didn't already know that.)

*gulp, throws away pencil*

*slams head on desk* 😮‍💨

Let me tell you about Agatha Christie.

So. 😅

Over time, I've come to realize that out of her many books, I have grown to like 5-7 characters, from distinct books, in varying degrees of infatuation.

And they all follow a certain... archetype.

*exhale* I don't know why I'm nervous. I should be more nervous about my idiot self reading horror stories in my bed as I'm about to sleep.

Anyway. Okay. I've ranked the characters in order of my like of them. Seven being lowest, one highest. Number 1 comes with a total freakout in my journal, so I'll include that entry when I get to it. (Also, I'm not including characters from Mrs. McGinty's Dead! not because I didn't think the book was good (it was), but because I didn't like any of the characters strongly enough to warrant it being called an "infatuation." And I read it pretty recently, so.)

*Note: lowest like doesn't necessarily mean hate. I still like the characters, but I like some more than others.

📣🚨📣I WILL TRY MY HARDEST NOT TO INCLUDE PLOT SPOILERS BEYOND THE PERSON'S CHARACTER📣🚨📣

📣🚨📣I'LL DEFINITELY NOT TELL YOU WHO THE MURDERER IS BECAUSE THAT WOULD RUIN THE FUN OF KICKING YOURSELF WHEN YOU DON'T FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN 📣🚨📣

7️⃣ Philip Lombard, And Then There Were None

Okay. This might've been the first Agatha Christie book I've read that really implanted itself (horribly) in my brain (my first Christie was Orient Express for high school, and I'd already read that before we read it in class). I say "horribly", because this book is hella dark.

And I've read it several times, and listened to the audiobook several times. It's a good book. A classic, closed-circle nursery-rhyme mystery. Ten strangers on an island each with a dark secret, some psycho is killing off people one by one exactly according to a nursery rhyme. It's fricking insane.