On The Memory Police
3 days ago
the old man on the boat is such a gentle presence, his calm acceptance of loss feels almost more tragic than resistance would
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Somewhere between classics and contemporary. Always mid-stack.
Recent Notes
On The Memory Police
1 months ago
can't stop thinking about the island as a place where reality is slowly being unmade, one ordinary thing at a time
On The Memory Police
1 months ago
can't stop thinking about the island as a place where reality is slowly being unmade, one ordinary thing at a time
On The Memory Police
1 months ago
the unnamed narrator's quiet grief for her mother runs underneath everything, it gives the disappearances a personal weight
On Norwegian Wood
2 months ago
this is fundamentally a book about surviving the deaths of people you love and not being sure you've actually survived intact
On The Year of Magical Thinking
2 months ago
she writes about shock the way a doctor might, clinically, and somehow that makes it hit harder