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Trying to wrap my head around this storytelling. The perspectives are interesting

It was an evening when people wanted to notice the trees and the stars that shone through them, they wanted to smell the blossom in the night air and feel the heat coming off the earth. People were in no hurry to be home but when they got back they'd take a bath and go to bed with the warm night air blowing through the windows and touching the curtains, remembering other times like this.

Hidden among the familiar, laughing faces of friends are the glimpsed shapes of strangers; and in the distant homes of tourists there /you/ are, at the edge of the frame, slightly out of focus, in the midst of other peoples' memories. [...] You will find the hurried glance of your own image: queuing at the bar, hurrying for the bus, drinking beer on a roof, bleeding on the floor of the tube,

Over the years my own impatience had become so extreme that I was in danger of becoming incapable of enjoying anything: every activity was an obstacle to the next. [...] I was even in a hurry when I had nothing to do. On buses I watched traffic lights compulsively, dreading a red, loving a green, happiest of all when the bus hurtled past a stop without stopping.

In cinema or books the climax of the action, however calamitous, simplifies and resolves - brings things to an end. In real life calamity and confrontation always bring chores in their wake. [...] Like a friend of mine who got stabbed and got his dole money stopped because he missed his signing-on day and hadn't filled out a sickness form while he was on a life-support machine.

I can SMELL how British this is. I can feel the cells in my body rearranging into clumps that resemble the British flag

There’s more to discover each time…

He’s so good. He’s so good…

Taylor Swift reference 10 pages in was a slap in the face. Goodbye 2016, hello 2026

Walked past the alcoholism shelf at the library during a study break and saw this. Recommendation from Mr Shawn McComb. And girl… girl

girl is this what the whole book is like

i love catching repeated ideas from past novels - the concept of looking down at yourself looking up, the “unseasonable november warmth”, all the narrators fixated on the word “anachronistic”. i love being a fan!!!

absolutely in love with how effortlessly ben lerner calls back to previous ideas, weaving perspectives from each family member together until they become a singular train of thought

ben lerner i want ur brain

cheating on ur beautiful korean wife with the chancellor’s wife and getting the chancellor’s wife pregnant then immediately going after a 20-year-old is fucking crazy work

what a perfect ending line… “No doubt all of this is not true remembrance but the ruinous work of nostalgia, which obliterates the past, and no doubt, as usual, I have exaggerated everything.”

must all bisexuals be evil

a24 called and said they’re making a movie about this book and i am casting a 2018 troye sivan as arthur

to fully immerse in the irish experience i’ve been reading all the dialogue in niall horan’s voice

i know this book is called “Skippy Dies” but i really hope Skippy does not die and the title is just a joke.

really really really fun read. unexpectedly dark

“Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually / not cutting your throat when you’ve had the chance”

i am turning the pages and reading the words in horror