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