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Taking a while to get through because I am in my Wes Anderson movies era. Lovely book so far. I love the way gay men love men and not in that fuckass TikTok video essay way.

“Life gives [lovers and friends] and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”

Finished story 1 of 6: The Adulterous Woman

I really liked this story. Janine’s crisis was a great exploration of the human, or more precisely, the female condition. Passionless husband and life, desire for something else or something more, mourning one’s old life and the could haves.

The usual Camus: Janine finds comfort in the vast and indifferent desert—the absurd. I was hoping she would actually cheat tho

What’s the deal with Camus and the way he writes about Arabs…

Mainly the Old Testament, specifically the books of Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Songs of Solomon.

Kurt Vonnegut was the OG anti-car dependency activist

Realizing now that you do kind of have to read Dostoevsky to follow what he’s saying so there goes my Audible credit

Audiobook so not really reading but the last time I read Dostoevsky, I almost had a stroke

Am aware this is a very middle aged mom thing to read

I’m going through the book fast because it’s been very interesting but now that I’m back on the iPhone…

LUCK IS NOT A HAND OF GOD

interesting