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Looking for the sacred in ordinary mornings. Slow reader, deep reader.

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Recent Notes

On White Fang

8 days ago

the wolf-dog hybrid angle is handled so carefully. you're always aware of both natures pulling at him at once.

On Stoner

12 days ago

the ending is one of the most quietly devastating things i've read — stoner's final reckoning with what he loved and what he lost

★★★★★

On Stoner

16 days ago

the prose is so quiet and precise it feels like williams is whispering the whole thing directly at you

On White Fang

19 days ago

the wolf-dog hybrid angle is handled so carefully. you're always aware of both natures pulling at him at once.

On Stoner

24 days ago

the marriage to edith is becoming genuinely painful to read, not dramatic pain, just the slow grinding kind

On White Fang

25 days ago

interesting how london flips the domestication question. white fang isn't being tamed so much as slowly choosing.

On Stoner

1 months ago

stoner's love for literature feels more real than almost any human relationship in the book so far

On White Fang

1 months ago

the yukon landscape is almost a character itself. london writes cold and silence in a way that settles into your bones.

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