Rachel

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Rachel’s Notes & Highlights

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

16 highlights

Concatenation of protohybridity. Hypertextual palimpsest. Cultural estrangement, cultural perambulation, cultural dissemination. Parsing a bricolage of a disintegrated self. Liminal translocality. Investing the text with refracted ...more

My Husband

by Maud Ventura

5 highlights
The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 highlight

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Rachel’s Groups

Haruki Murakami Book Group — 5913 members — last activity Jun 02, 2026 05:59AM
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

Japanese Literature — 5642 members — last activity Jun 03, 2026 09:16AM
A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors, the arts, culture, and history of Japan. May 2026: Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawa ...more

Hysterical Realists — 28 members — last activity Mar 21, 2020 09:00AM
Inspired by Zadie Smith's apt description of David Foster Wallace's style, this group is devoted to more or less contemporary writing including non-fi ...more

Beta Reader Group — 29861 members — last activity 9 hours, 42 min ago
A place to connect writers with beta readers. A cliche is just one of the things to look out for while writing. They can slip in unnoticed and ruin a ...more