Madison Baker

On The Shadow of the Wind

1 days ago

the cemetery of forgotten books as a concept is devastating and wonderful, can't stop thinking about what book i would choose to protect

On The Bell Jar

1 days ago

the bell jar never fully lifts so much as you learn to move inside it, and plath makes that feel like the most honest thing she could have said

★★★★☆

On Homegoing

9 days ago

gyasi managed to hold two hundred years of history inside individual human hearts and somehow that makes the history feel more real not less

★★★☆☆

On The Poetics of Space

11 days ago

the prose itself performs what it argues. reading about intimate space makes the room around me feel both smaller and more immense

On Pnin

1 months ago

nabokov's prose keeps catching me off guard — just when you feel for pnin, the narrator slips in some cruel little irony and you don't know whether to laugh or wince

On The Year of Magical Thinking

1 months ago

her prose has always been cool and controlled but here the control is clearly costing her something