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Beatlemania as a psychological phenomenon should be studied

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Massive time jump🤢

A hot new bombshell (a social pariah) has entered the villa (Brideshead)

“Breaking News: Marquis’s Son Unused to Wine🫵🤡”

Reading this is a coping mechanism while I wait for another Donna Tartt novel

Normalize standing on the balcony with a megaphone and reciting passages from “The Waste Land”

Joan and I don’t quite see eye-to-eye on shopping malls

“This is my first burning building. Give me a chance”

My favorite essays so far:
1. The White Album
2. In the Islands
3. Georgia O’Keefe

Curious how readers responded to the “Women’s Movement” essay when it was first published…

I’m mad at myself for not picking this up sooner

Kind of a slog. Didn’t quite feel like an Ann Patchett novel until this past chapter

Jack really said “there’s only room for one death-obsessed family member in this household”

Jack Gladney seems like the type of person who would write “Springtime for Hitler”

15-PAGE GEORGE HARRISON INTERVIEW YIPPEEEE!!!

He described some of his acid trips as “like Memphis blues again to be stuck inside.” George may have been Bob Dylan’s biggest fan I fear

learning as much Beatles lore as possible to become even more insufferable

“Murder on the Links” didn’t interest me as much as I hoped it would. It felt overly complicated and clumsy in some aspects. Poirot himself says that complexity doesn’t necessarily equate to cleverness when he first sees the crime scene. Dame Christie remains the undisputed “queen of crime” but I’m still searching for a mystery as phenomenal as “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.”

the Gucci Room

this book gets funnier with every reread

the annual reread

SNCC involved in the Vietnam War? oh buddy. the sixties is such an overlooked decade in American history

I love self destructive characters!

compulsory 20 minutes of relaxing time

Ann sure knows how to tell a story. It’s strange reading a book that takes place during covid

“In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I’m treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, ‘Grandpa, we’re you a hero in the war?’ ‘No,’ I answered, ‘but I served in a company of heroes.’”

finally got this back from the library. we are so back