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Elizabeth Okonkwo

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Systems thinker. I read on trains and miss my stop.

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Recent Notes

On The Overstory

12 days ago

can't stop thinking about how small the human timelines feel against the redwoods, powers does this almost without trying

On Never Let Me Go

16 days ago

a book about memory and loss that argues they are almost the same thing. i'll be thinking about the norfolk scene for a long time

★★★☆☆

On Gilead

17 days ago

thinking about how robinson uses light — sunlight keeps returning, ordinary midwestern light made to feel like grace

On A Little Life

22 days ago

i finished it last night and just sat there. yanagihara asks so much of you and somehow it's worth it even when it isn't

★★★★★

On The Name of the Rose

27 days ago

william of baskerville feels like a medieval holmes but eco keeps reminding you the analogy is imperfect, and that imperfection is kind of the whole point

On Norwegian Wood

1 months ago

the way toru just drifts through tokyo, attending lectures he barely registers — murakami captures that particular kind of young loneliness so precisely

On The Bell Jar

1 months ago

what lingers isn't the darkness but the lucidity — esther always saw everything so clearly, and that clarity was both her wound and her survival

★★★★★

On The Road

1 months ago

the man's memories of the woman feel like fragments of a world that no longer has a language to describe it.

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