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Simon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Simon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
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2024
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On the Edge and Other Stories: 11 BBC Radio Thrillers
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Very acceptable romance Nothing super special But still nice And gay George is barely believable but Lucas is much more believable George (the tall one) is the fantasy i guess anyways Finished in Aspen 2026 |
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Holy shit Gonna be thinking about this one for a long time Incredible Maybe one of the best ive read in years Some incredible metaphors “An accent that could strip paint” Love like a “brightened moon in the daytime sky, as if its private gravity might lift ...more |
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“The truth is funny!” I liked this! She’s very young but she is funny and that is hard to do actually. Some things felt on the fringe of believable but she’s so young, so I’m excited to see what else comes from her. Solid debut Like franzen lite / and ...more |
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Man what a bonkers book but I actually really loved it in the end. Has been really useful to rewire my thinking on my writing. First off the chapters are basically like essays, and within each paragraph each sentence doesn’t necessarily have a relati ...more |
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| I can’t not give this five stars because just on level of craft this is just like stratospherically masterful—the book follows this Hungarian kid from like 15 to 45? Each chapter skips forward to significant period of his life, in the early stages it ...more | |
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Fun sentences, like The Coin but more emotional Cool that its 4 sections with vignettes Very icy and weird sensibility Book about Death valley and pupfish mentioned only once at the end as a rare guppy smh :/ |
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| At 3/4 of the way through I thought I was bored but actually when I finished it I was sad it was over, I’ve been reading it for a while, it reminded me when I used to carry a book around with me for a whole period of my life when i was younger, i mis ...more | |
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Wait I LOVED this. It was so funny and heartfelt. Cover made me think it would be bad. Pasted thoughts: Fame can be a decision! and its omly a problem for white ppl or for ppl who didn’t work for it Giving someone your complete and utter attention is a ...more |
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“Who, and what, do we leave behind in all this middle-class striving? But also, I get it. Without this upward drive, how else could my parents have gotten me to where I am? There will be corners of this house that will always be dark to me.”
― Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
― Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
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