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Oliver Watson

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I read for the sentences, not the stories. Prose first, always.

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Recent Notes

On Homegoing

24 days ago

what stays with me is how the novel insists that history is never past — it lives in the body, in silence, in what gets carried forward

★★★☆☆

On One Hundred Years of Solitude

1 months ago

every generation seems doomed to repeat the same obsessions, the same wars, the same loneliness, and nobody can see it happening

On Station Eleven

1 months ago

jeevan's chapters feel so grounded and panicked at once. watching him grasp what's happening while the rest of the world still doesn't know

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