On Middlemarch
6 days ago
the ending stayed with me — that passage about unhistoric acts and the growing good of the world is one of the most quietly radical things in the english novel
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Systems thinker. I read on trains and miss my stop.
On Middlemarch
6 days ago
the ending stayed with me — that passage about unhistoric acts and the growing good of the world is one of the most quietly radical things in the english novel
On The Goldfinch
20 days ago
the way tartt writes grief is almost unbearable, theo's loss of his mother runs under every single scene like a current you can't switch off
On Kafka on the Shore
25 days ago
the fish and leeches falling from the sky is the moment i stopped questioning anything and just surrendered to wherever this was going
On The Overstory
1 months ago
a book that changes how long you look at a tree, which sounds like a cliche but powers actually earns it by the last page
On Gilead
1 months ago
ames on his friendship with boughton is so quietly moving, two old men and a lifetime of theology and argument and loyalty
On A Little Life
1 months ago
jude's past is being revealed in fragments and each fragment is worse than you imagined, the dread just builds and builds