Moth & Lamp

On On Liberty

1 days ago

he's so patient with opposing views before dismantling them, there's a generosity here that modern political writing rarely has

On Circe

5 days ago

i keep forgetting this is ancient greece because the interiority feels so modern and immediate, and somehow that doesn't bother me at all

On Circe

11 days ago

i keep forgetting this is ancient greece because the interiority feels so modern and immediate, and somehow that doesn't bother me at all

On Circe

22 days ago

the chapters on her island exile have this strange dual feeling — imprisonment and relief at once, which i think is exactly the point

On On Liberty

1 months ago

the harm principle sounds simple until he starts working through the edge cases, then you realize how much weight that one idea has to carry

On Circe

1 months ago

i keep forgetting this is ancient greece because the interiority feels so modern and immediate, and somehow that doesn't bother me at all

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 Homegoing

1 months ago

gyasi writes the cape coast castle scenes with such restraint and that makes them so much harder to bear