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Opened Arcades Project & got scared, so reading this instead :)

"Noli commoveri! Nil desperandum. Viva asinus."

The narrator keeps telling me how sagacious I am for reading Tom Jones

No mention of der alexanderplatz so far, but I’m on High Alert

I am reading this as an act of self-flagellation

Not super bought into the manufactured tension of a guy with the flu who knows Something being too sick to reveal it

Horse book long

So far so good, but I get the sense that Richard Powers really needs a wedgie and/or swirlie

What if you loved School so much you would do Anything for School

Chambers biography is a surprise Hall ‘O Ween story because the Chambers-Hiss trial ends up turning on secret tapes hidden inside a pumpkin

Tanenhaus keeps saying that baby Chambers was this star writer in school. Then he’ll quote a couple lines from like a poem he wrote in college and … it isn’t bad per se but it’s def just sophomoric lol

Going " ohhhhh boy, here comes trouble!" every time Blumenthal mentions the name of a Guy I've heard of

Took til M & D's arrival in America to really kick into gear. But now that we're here we've got pot-smoking George Washington; a horny, invisible mechanical duck; and a global Jesuit conspiracy. Like an old familiar tune, bay-bee!

People actually like this stuff?

Key part of the plot so far is promissory notes?? 😔 contract law haunts me everywhere I go

Accidentally overdue & the library threatened to charge me w/ replacing if I don’t return it stat… I can’t afford a new hardcover book in this economy!

Sloooow going. I was TRICKED into reading a complete history of Christianity thinking it’d be salacious and dish-y

Incredibly funny that Theweleit’s analysis of the ideal “man of steel” the German state tried to create features two (2) full page images of Spiderman

When I read this in public I put a different book cover on it bc the title board just says MALE FANTASIES in a nazi-esque font and has a pair of jackboots. It look like I’m either a pervert or a fascist (which is ironic given what the book is, but still…) Now ppl think I’m reading Good Booty