On Station Eleven
18 days ago
the airport settlement is quietly haunting — all those people who just... stopped moving. built a life in a terminal
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I read for the sentences, not the stories. Prose first, always.
Recent Notes
On The Name of the Rose
22 days ago
stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. i keep turning that final line over. names, roses, what remains. eco earns every word of it
On Conversations with Friends
23 days ago
the way frances narrates everything so coolly but clearly feels everything so intensely — that gap is what makes this so compelling
On Outline
28 days ago
it's a quiet book that somehow leaves a very loud silence behind it
On Pnin
1 months ago
pnin's relationship with his ex-wife liza is so loaded — every mention of her carries this whole history of longing and quiet damage
On The Year of Magical Thinking
1 months ago
the way she keeps returning to that ordinary dinner, that ordinary night, is making me hold my breath