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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.

This book is crazy because I could be writing it this week and both the humor and the geopolitical analysis would be exactly the same. I understand why she almost killed herself when no one would publish it 20 years ago

mothers as emotional terrorists canon

Book club on Friday :)

This is immediately sooooo dramatic, kind of Annie Ernaux

Bertrand Russell continues to be funny and helpful

I’m so sick of grad school I don’t want to make an annotated bibliography I want to read a gd novel

The vision is subtle and I’m fucking with it

Reading again because love