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This is my first time reading Charles Dickens. Also the oldest “novel” I’ve read. My second semester with Rudnytsky whom I love making this experience worth it. I read about 500 pages in 3 days which for me is a LOT. What an imagination Dickens had and what a heart! I was resisting at first but this book is wonderful. I laugh to myself when certain things the characters did or said pop into my head. I love Jip

A real pick it up and can’t put downer

Rudnytsky will make me an expert by December.

Started this because I just wanted a history refresher so I can better understand other stuff I’m reading but this book is amazing. Very objective telling of a history that doesn’t lack any compassion or humanity. Also has a sense of humor to it. Much more than a US history book. Recommending it cuz it isn’t boring.

Love

Yay I’m finally reading a book again

I don’t own it yet but I’m going to the store today and I will be reading…

I thought something felt familiar while reading then found out that the guy who wrote Challengers was inspired by this book lol

Even though Agassi is obviously embellishing a bit much through his pulitzer prize winning ghost writer… the book has been amazing.
I hate the cover of the original version of this book so much, it’s nightmare inducing. So pretend I’m reading the Ukrainian edition.

Oh no well it looks like I’ll be obsessed with this book for the rest of my life

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful to the soul than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the accident of our mortal selves?”

😨😨😨

What

Irish writers can’t miss

I tried reading this a little over a year ago and remember believing that this was the hardest book I’ve ever tried to read and almost immediately gave up. I got 70% into Ulysses in the past month and that is EASILY way harder than Infinite Jest. On second try I’ve been really enjoying Infinite Jest and I’m excited to keep reading it. I’ll probably come back to Ulysses in a year after doing more reading?

Diane Williams writes like Alice Munro on Adderall and I love that

Oh it's real good

It’s so over

“Like something else was going on- like something… not groovy”

“Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically.” lol

“Questions arose. Like, what in the fuck was going on here, basically.”