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I’m jealous of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s brain works. He can detail the exact shape of an argument from decades ago. Meanwhile I spiral when I try and remember what I had for breakfast last week.

No idea what's happening. But it's sinister.

This starts with a quote from Girl, Interrupted which is so funny because these are my book club books. I love when the book club books relate to each other for no reason it makes me feel like the zodiac killer.

That was a lot

Getting the ick. I know that's the point but still. Ick.

Palate cleanser

Do you like piña coladas (and reading each others diaries).

Shocked to find out the book about descending into Hell is mean and bleak and hurting my feelings

RF Kuang loves a Sartre reference. Not I …

Not just related to books by Camus but now I’m just constantly thinking about how it’s a pattern in history that when war destroys the social fabric of peoples lives and institutions collapse people resort to exploiting women and children as a way of holding society together, as if that can work.

“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.”

You should go back and ready Camus once your prefrontal cortex develops, he really is that bitch.

Found the upper limit of what I can read while employed

Obsessed

“In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question.”

Who does it like Neil Postman? No one

Not The X-Files catching strays

Men are sooooo stupid omg they're sooooo dumb

Pushed me to the brink, almost dnf'ed. She can make the stupidest details so interesting and also make me want to bawl my eyes out.

The questions about power dynamics between men and women are also very interesting, and I'm fascinated by this line of questioning about whether all relationships are built on exploitation.

I do wonder though why Peter and Ivan are so nuanced and the women seem like male fantasies...

oof

I'm a vampire now rawr (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ)

I think this might be VE Schwab's best prose? I think so.

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The homage this book pays to Camus is a thing to behold

"The history of ethics is a sad tale of wonderful ideals that nobody can live up to. Most Christians did not imitate Christ . . . In contrast, most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal . . . How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television."

!! That feeling when it feels like it all connects ...