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Mark Zhang is 50% done with Arabian Sands
Return through the empty quarter!
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Arabian Sands

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Mark Zhang is 75% done with One Hundred Years of Solitude
Losing track of the number of Aurelianos, Jose Arcadios, and Remedioses 🥴
Jan 26, 2026 04:23AM Add a comment
One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Goals for the Month of January:

100 Years of Solitude
Masters of the Air
Confessions of St. Augustine

May or may not make progress with Dostoevsky (really want to get time for a chunk of Brothers)

Finish my SWO Engineering qual 🥴
Jan 15, 2026 03:45AM Add a comment

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 20% done with Arabian Sands
Brought my paperback with me to Japan this time! So refreshing to read Thesiger. I love the world and I love his wanderlust.
Dec 07, 2025 11:43PM Add a comment
Arabian Sands

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Mark Zhang is 25% done with The Grapes of Wrath
Seamus I am once again renewing my fealty to Steinbeck. Also I hate the banks!
Nov 30, 2025 04:28AM Add a comment
The Grapes of Wrath

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Mark Zhang is 15% done with Anger, Mercy, Revenge (De Ira, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis)
Commute book for when I don’t have my paperback Dostoevsky. Seneca is still as helpful as I found him years ago (maybe little character development on my part?).
Nov 16, 2025 10:37PM Add a comment
Anger, Mercy, Revenge (De Ira, De Clementia, Apocolocyntosis)

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 25% done with The Sound of Waves
I love love stories
Nov 15, 2025 01:42AM Add a comment
The Sound of Waves

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Mark Zhang is 5% done with The Brothers Karamazov
Bratja! Oh Brothers! Honestly have a lot of high hopes for this one - everyone I’ve talked to has hyped up Brothers Karamazov.
Nov 11, 2025 06:31AM Add a comment
The Brothers Karamazov

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Mark Zhang is 40% done with Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)
A hit of nostalgia - revisiting the streets of Novigrad ( memories of 2019 winter vacation and playing Witcher).

I can’t remember why I didn’t continue the series after Last Wish but gosh it’s different to read good fantasy.
Nov 11, 2025 06:28AM Add a comment
Sword of Destiny (The Witcher, #0.7)

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 25% done with Selected Poetry
He was filled with faith and love
Faithful to his soul’s ideal
Blazoned AVE, MATER DEI
In his blood upon his shield
Oct 26, 2025 04:46AM Add a comment
Selected Poetry

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 85% done with The New Testament (King James Version)
To live is Christ, and to die is gain

Paul’s letters!
Oct 25, 2025 06:37AM Add a comment
The New Testament (King James Version)

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 75% done with The Idiot
Ippolitcore - bro just didn't live long enough to experience the joys of doomscrolling ans situationships. Oh Ippolit you would've loved 2025
Oct 08, 2025 01:22AM Add a comment
The Idiot

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 50% done with The Idiot
Catching up on my readings between 05:30 space walkthroughs and being dismissed at 23:00… incidentally not really having much to do from 1200 onwards.

Turns out Nepo baby got an inheritance and people started to like him and then others tried to scam him. Messy love triangle but if I were rich like that I’d also shoot my shot with the kept woman fr
Sep 23, 2025 01:36AM Add a comment
The Idiot

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 20% done with The Idiot
Innocence and broke Nepo babies

Unfortunately reading Dostoevsky always reminds me I’m base and evil (Ganya) and too removed from the lamb of Christ that is Myshkin

But oh Nastasya! We need to bring back falling madly in love with beauty at first sight
Sep 21, 2025 01:23AM Add a comment
The Idiot

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 50% done with Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Enjoyed that Steinbeck loved Wisconsin. I miss home!
Sep 16, 2025 06:48AM Add a comment
Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 30% done with Travels with Charley: In Search of America
@Seamus when you see this just know that I am also pledging my fealty to the American novelist

Tbh this reads less like a memoir of a great American novelist than an ordinary guy trying to find greatness in America. Maine in the 60s was endearing but I have a sense that much of this story will be negative - if not filled with hope for better like all Steinbecks
Sep 09, 2025 07:47AM Add a comment
Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 70% done with The New Testament (King James Version)
Actually really enjoy Corinthians
Sep 09, 2025 05:48AM Add a comment
The New Testament (King James Version)

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 55% done with The Myth of Sisyphus
Lotta yapping to say don’t kill yourself tbh
Sep 01, 2025 04:37AM Add a comment
The Myth of Sisyphus

Mark Zhang
Mark Zhang is 30% done with The Myth of Sisyphus
Honestly hurts brain a little to read - but then again I’m not the target demographic of Camus enjoyers
Aug 31, 2025 10:15AM Add a comment
The Myth of Sisyphus

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Mark Zhang is 30% done with Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Africa, Americas, Australia and New Guinea just sorta resource cucked from the start on domesticable plants and animals fr

But imagine how cool Bison 🦬 cavalry or Hippo 🦛 riders would’ve been in a different timeline where they were less temperamental
Aug 19, 2025 08:31AM Add a comment
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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