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I’m not sure why I feel compelled to keep up with these Booker Prize shortlist books but this is not for me… I will finish it though…🫩 I wasn’t impressed with Flashlight particularly either

Reading this again because I didn’t understand it the first time

107 days of Sodom

Eroticism, like perfume itself, is a constructed reality. Women do not want to smell like a flower; they want their perfume to radiate an aura that is sexually alluring. So a truly aphrodisiac perfume is one that triggers our unconscious memory of our animal nature in all its erotic manifestations. It is neither a return to our animal nature nor an attempt to cover it up, but rather an exalting of it.

“The sandalwood tree has a vampirish way of thriving. It is a hemiparasite, which means that it gets some of its nutrients through photosynthesis, but must siphon off the rest from the roots of neighboring trees and plants via octopuslike tentacles, bringing a slow death to the host.”

“The decline of natural perfumery was not only a material loss but also a spiritual one. Natural perfumes evolve on the skin, changing over time and uniquely in response to body chemistry. the most basic level, they interact with us, making who we are—and who we are in the process of becoming—-part of the story.”

Reading for book club 🫩

Just learned that Beethoven was NOT a large St Bernard but was in fact a German composer

Spotify is holding my listening credits hostage 😟

I’ve been putting off reading this because I was worried it would be boring and tedious. But so far it’s a lot of fun!

This book is great so far

This is kind of boring

This is my first Cordwainer Smith story and it was a very odd read. I think this story might be part of a series because Smith kept referencing The Lords of Instrumentality? The story itself is mainly about a woman who is part cat. She is a “girly girl” and assists our protagonist in a mission. Their efforts are successful and years later people have a song about her love for her human partner in crime. Bizzare

This is the easiest work of Aristotle to understand in my opinion. Probably because of the translation

I’m reading this for book club and it’s so bad. It’s making me nauseous how poorly written it is. It’s like a novelization of a Netflix horror movie.

This is one of those books where the ideas in it are interesting, but the plot is boring and tedious

This book reminds me of a time when the internet was still young and everyone was concerned with the “morally outrageous” stuff young men. It reads as kind of…. Naive and pearl clutching? Idk

This shit is insane 🫨

Thank you Joe Sachs

I’m reading this for my book club- I’M NOT INTO HUNKY COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a great read so far