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nora is on page 48 of 304 of Wild and Distant Seas
Why does every female character need some kind of magical realist special ability to distinguish her? Are Mrs Hussey and her daughter not capable of being interesting enough on their own to sustain a narrative?
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Wild and Distant Seas

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nora is on page 24 of 304 of Wild and Distant Seas
Rough start, folks.
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Wild and Distant Seas

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nora is starting Moby-Dick or, The Whale
i made a pact with myself to only read this book once every 5 years but fuck it, i somehow managed to convince like 50 fans of the terror (2018) to do a book club with me so here we go only 3 years later. will be at a snail’s pace bc of my punishing academic life but it should provide some comfort and relief for many months to come!
Oct 07, 2021 09:32PM 1 comment
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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nora is on page 57 of 398 of King Henry IV, Part 1
prince hal canonically refers to himself as “a good boy” (II.iv.12)
Aug 23, 2021 03:24PM 2 comments
King Henry IV, Part 1

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nora is starting King Henry IV, Part 1
over a year into managing a discord server for fans of the histories and i am just now starting the henry ivs. are you all happy now
Aug 22, 2021 10:06PM Add a comment
King Henry IV, Part 1

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nora is on page 95 of 243 of Beautiful Losers
“I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order […] Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismographic needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.”
Aug 16, 2021 10:14PM Add a comment
Beautiful Losers

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nora is on page 32 of 237 of A Bright Ray of Darkness
i’m not sure i’ve ever bought a book solely bc i find the author hot before, so we’ll see if i come to regret this decision
Aug 04, 2021 10:53PM Add a comment
A Bright Ray of Darkness

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nora is on page 277 of 372 of Hamnet
only part of this book i’ve found particularly clever so far was when a subtle explanation for the “second-best bed” thing was given ;)
Aug 01, 2021 08:30PM Add a comment
Hamnet

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nora is starting The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
i’ve been calling myself an anarcho-communist for years without reading any significant amount of theory let’s goooooo
Feb 18, 2021 09:58PM Add a comment
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)

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nora is on page 380 of 783 of Ulysses
after almost two full years since i first began ulysses, i just now got to the circe episode, & tbh? i think if jimmy joyce had moved this to earlier in the book, fewer weak-minded-hearted people like me would give up on it. also, i think every novel should have a section that is written like a play!!
Dec 30, 2020 01:44PM Add a comment
Ulysses

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nora is on page 300 of 783 of Ulysses
i’m back to the grind—i had to take an extended break for college things/recovering from college things
Dec 18, 2020 03:08PM Add a comment
Ulysses

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nora is on page 200 of 723 of Metamorphoses
has anyone tallied up exactly how many of the titular metamorphoses involve either the attempted or completed r*pe of a female character
Oct 06, 2020 08:36PM Add a comment
Metamorphoses

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nora is on page 84 of 224 of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
i think this book hits its stride in the richard iii section, but i was still a little disappointed by how repetitive and shallow the treatment of the henry vi plays was. like, i know nobody reads or performs or cares about them, but i think you can glean more from them than just "party politics bad"
Sep 05, 2020 10:45PM Add a comment
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

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nora is on page 225 of 783 of Ulysses
at this rate i might finish by february? which would be nice! my only real goal is to finish by next bloomsday...
Sep 04, 2020 10:47PM Add a comment
Ulysses

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nora is on page 151 of 783 of Ulysses
i literally only read like 4 pages of this a day but it’s a highlight of each day
Aug 10, 2020 05:05PM Add a comment
Ulysses

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nora is on page 108 of 783 of Ulysses
reading this along with gifford's annotations is taking forever but it's so worth the ride
Jul 30, 2020 09:31PM Add a comment
Ulysses

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nora is on page 1140 of 1392 of War and Peace
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War and Peace

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nora is on page 200 of 1392 of War and Peace
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War and Peace

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