On Pachinko
9 days ago
the way lee moves through decades without losing track of each character's inner life is genuinely impressive craft
Foxglove
@foxglove.reads
1 reading now
Night reader. The lamp stays on past midnight more often than not.
Recent Notes
On The Remains of the Day
14 days ago
miss kenton keeps pressing stevens toward honesty and he just... deflects, every time. the tension is unbearable in the best way.
On Gilead
14 days ago
a book about blessing, literally and metaphysically, and by the last pages you feel ames has somehow extended that blessing to the reader
On Beloved
19 days ago
this book rearranged something in me, the ending sits in your chest and doesn't leave
On The God of Small Things
24 days ago
velutha is so present in every scene he's in, and yet i can feel the narrative circling something terrible about his story
On One Hundred Years of Solitude
29 days ago
the way time moves here is unlike anything else — decades blur and repeat and i'm not sure garcía márquez wants me to keep track
On Station Eleven
1 months ago
closed it feeling strangely hopeful, which is not what i expected from a pandemic novel. mandel earns that light at the end
On Conversations with Friends
1 months ago
the dynamic between frances and nick feels so precisely observed — all that subtext running underneath ordinary conversation