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this book is providing such a succinct history of china’s invasion of tibet it’s so good so far

on writing in one’s first but not indigenous language: “A pure language is the poorest in health; a mongrel language is full of vigour. English being the most bastardized is the healthiest and richest of them all—with the largest and ever increasing vocabulary. I use it because I love it.”

just realized that in a way I'm recreating the plot of the book having first read it at age ten and rereading it now as an adult I can only remember the really scary parts and other parts are giving me weird deja vu (he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts)

tengo miedo porque no he tenido que leer un libro en español hace años y años pero trataré de leer estos cuentitos

growing on me but the comparison to Dostoevsky on the back cover is taking me out whoever wrote that is telling on themself

so far this feels like a knockoff Special Topics in Calamity Physics and it's making me mad

I don't know why I keep reading books about the cape they keep making me homesick!!!

literally only a washashore who went to Harvard would write a book like this lmao

it's very good but it feels sooooo very long wtf

this book is such a weird indictment of japanese society

Irish authors don't do a James Joyce reference challenge (impossible) (jk I love Molly bloom and all references to her)

I did it! only three more episodes :)

I’ve been slacking this week, but I am going to crush the fifteenth episode today if it kills me.

(my book has only 682 pages the typeface is so small) halfway done!!!! in two weeks! feeling: optimistic: I hope to finish by the end of the month 😸

my Ulysses guru Chris Reich is claiming I'm a third of the way through which is numerically impossible but I'm choosing to believe him and allowing myself to feel encouraged

bruh idk how I'm gonna finish this thing lol

kind of feeling a love for the place I grew up and certainly a wonder at the realization that most people don't know survivors (or victims) of shipwrecks

I needed something familiar and good

manifesting this: "...Fariña invited them all to come over with their instruments and friends. Soon there was a party. (Those five words are the caption to the menta picture most people had of Richard Fariña.)"

more than halfway can I get a hell yeah

back at it

this is going to take me one million billion years to finish

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."

truly one of my favorite genres is brilliant women written by men; I wonder why (ironic)

“But the sad fact is you go into the middle of nowhere and people are eating Simba chips and cornflakes and drinking Castle lager.”

average baithaopi diet i fear

I don't understand how I've been reading this book for two weeks lmao I just am not really enjoying it even though there's nothing wrong w it

so far this is misanthropic drivel and I'm hating it. but I refuse to dnf anything

only this far in and already two mentions of the pandemic, an entire tiktok dance, and at least ten pages devoted to how much one character hates lululemon workout moms

this book is so depressing what the fuck