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Essay 8, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Geez. The center cannot hold. 10/10

Essay 9, On Keeping a Notebook

Maybe I should keep a notebook, if only to become familiar with my past selves

Essay 10, On Self-Respect

I could not follow her argument at ALL. Least favourite essay so far

Obsessed with Cersei’s pov. Who would’ve thought the most evil, scheming character is secretly really dumb? It’s giving Glass Onion

Still weird

This is weird

Story’s ok so far but the art is kind of ugly in my opinion. I so wish the colouring weren’t digital

Darn you Jay Miller for having me try to speed read this in a short amount of time. It’s too lovely and deserves more of my time. Darn you

Slow going. The slowest, perhaps

Loki has so much main character energy and he’s right

October = Neil Gaiman time

I’ve been in a reading slump lately and usually reading graphic novels or Neil Gaiman or both cures me. So yeah definitely reading this book that is wider than my lap when closed and probably weighs 15lb will get me back into reading. This is not a cry for help I promise

I cannot tell if the prose is good or not. But I just read the sentence “All I could produce was a meaningless, ugly sound, like the rubbing together of two meaningless, ugly things.” So I’ll leave the judgements up to you.

Essay 6, “California Dreaming”
Short, odd. These people needed the Honors Program.

Essay 7, “Marrying Absurd”
Also short, but concise. A focused highlight of the absurdity of Las Vegas

Continually incredible

I’d been reading little bits at a time and didn’t think it warranted adding to my currently reading until I saw I was 77 pages in 👀

Guess I’m committed now

So maybe I like monks now

Vampirrrrreeesss

For a secular novel it understands Lutheranism pretty well

Reading this instead of Annie Dillard bc I need something new