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Slow going...
I feel like this is going to add to existing thoughts about the limits of service. Lee in East of Eden is an example of service work brimming over into domesticity and parenting and care. Here, service turns into romance? How exploitative are both scenarios? Odd to read only Zweig's letters and just one--of dubious accuracy--of Lotte's.

soooooo we’re grappling with loss in children’s books again

Roy is one of the greatest English prose stylists living I swear...

This cover is magnificent. Just small blue iceberg photo. We need to get tap into early aughts trade fiction cover design.

Gosan Library just got this in and I picked it up while looking through the new books on the Eng lang shelf. I really trust Graywolf to put out good stuff and 30 pages in i’m not disappointed

Honestly, so refreshingly good so far! Prose is competent and the premise is more exciting than manyy other contemporary novels…

@ kexin the kindle has allowed me to start this 👀 join me

page two of the preface - HELL YEAH did you just scientifically disassemble the act of your writing and then our reading into every one of its constituent physical reactions and thereby evoke how miraculous it is that humans communicate with each other and exist at all?! let’s go

“While returning from a trip to Palestine in March 2015, the governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, said ‘Theres’s really no such thing as Palestinians.’”

the shit runs deep and still ppl act like it’s not their problem, it’s too “distant”

I’m sorry book books books for going out of order but copy of wharton isn’t here yet and i think reading more 20th century prose would destroy my covid-riddled brain

“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but all ‘civilisation’ holds up its hand in horror and clamours for ‘order’ to be restored.”

i am reading this book so slowly but we will finish it!

Story of your life was stellar — really love this kind of story. Concepts from physics (Fermats principle) and examples from linguistics (lang. acquisition, the possibility of a different grammar, perceiving the world as teleological rather than sequential) wrap together in the life of the narrator to express something that feels very true and very human. (,:

having the thrilling experience of being awed at the sheer smartness of an argument

“Had it really been a passion for someone? Or a passion for the person I became when I was caught up in someone?” 117

wE CAN DO THIS