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This just got so gay

I never had a phase of engaging with serial killer media so this is rough but the overall work she's doing here and the web she's weaving are soooo interesting..... I'm just like wow I know the names of these guys but I've never really Looked Into their escapades. bad!

I am obsessed with the absolutely relentless tone and pacing of this book I don’t want to put it down (but I have to go to book club)

I love this book

Starting over for book club and reading the new translation out from Oxford

There have been so many prospects for finding out information and testing theories that she’s just breezing by at this point and I get it but also I’m like cmon satisfy MY curiosity at least…

Unexpectedly had thematically relevant nightmares after starting this book last night but I’m carrying on

Hegel time

Finally found a contemporary novel where language seems to matter to the author

I finished grad school today….. I know reading for pleasure hates to see me coming

took a minute for this to really pick up for me but now i'm locked in

Thank god we got past the women’s march portion lol

I’m totally sucked in. Reading this for book club and it’s hard not to read everything we do together through a Ulysses lens since that was our first book for club — this one fits right in.

I love cousin James

It has reached 80 degrees it’s time to read contemporary novels that make me chuckle smirk and cringe

I’m running into a feeling reading this that it almost feels like Ben Lerner ran into writing this (I’m projecting) which is understanding the impulse and need to document and explain shifting technologies (and aging) and the ways they drastically change our relationships to ourselves each other the world, but also how sad and cheap it all is… there’s a defeat and malaise in the exploration. Intrigued

I love him so much he makes everything feel so clear but still so rich

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Romantic period let’s go

Newly translated Ingeborg Bachmann piece in the latest issue of the Paris Review for all who need to know

I can't stop reading this

As a metaphor so far this is actually heartbreaking but I’m open to all of the places it’s bound to go in seven volumes (?)

I went into this totally blind so color me surprised to end up spooked !

Okay this is interesting to read right now while watching trump desperately try not to admit he started a war he does not understand the extent of

Solid inclusion/analysis of Houellebecq in context

embarking on a funny journey to read all of the books in my TBR that are sub-3-stars just to see what's up with them (there's only like 6) but so far I'm understanding why this one is in the club

I love putting myself on blast with the new DNF shelf yum yum

The introduction of this book posits that War, Real War is back…….. because of Russia/Ukraine. Then asks the question: war never really left it’s just mostly been proxy wars so why does this feel different? My guess is Europeans are racist so watching white people get murdered in War means it’s a Real War, but let’s see if it gets any deeper than that.