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was excited to read this but why do they all have the same weird exclamation point-y self-justifying style of thoughts. surely that should be limited to two at Most

'From the day I had found Sylvia Beach's library I had read all of Turgenev, what had been published in English of Gogol, the Constance Garnett translations of Tolstoi and the English translations of Chekov.' love the implication that Constance Garnett is a separate language from English

cr The Tempest

love the concept of english degree as backup in case art school doesn't work out. girl..

weird to hear about the revolutionary war from a british perspective

😶 plead the fifth

deeply dislike the narration but that feels rude to say when she's talking about her mom dying (not that it's stopping me apparently askdfjalsdf)

mysteriously mine says 'shouldn't' instead of 'must not'

the way no one has read this apparently¿? anyway i got it for one euro so. that’s fine lmao. it’s been a good edinburgh book (!) as i fail to find the book i planned to find here (did find mayakovsky translated into scots tho!!! very exciting)

..already contemplating dnfing after listening to like an hour but may give it one more chance

will not be making it to the dog pov i'm afraid.. assumed this would be really good bc everyone in the universe has said so. and then i started it and was like. oh so i guess it's..some kind of satire? wonder why none of those million people mentioned that? and Then i was like. oh so the writing is just bad actually

*left off pg 48 idk if it'll tell me if i ever come back to it but worth a shot i guess lool

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow foot sign you will always be famous apparently

.......kommunisticheskaya prospekt.......

recalled the mushroom story out of nowhere and had to return to this

'pausing'

contemplating dnf-ing this someone tell me i should lmao

in my memoir era (read: in my julianna margulies era)

off to a bad start lmao

first nabokov someone should probably take my russian degree away

looking camp right in the eye <3