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Penelope Garcia

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Somewhere between classics and contemporary. Always mid-stack.

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Recent Notes

On The Road

17 days ago

the boy keeps asking if they are the good guys. that question is doing so much work in this book.

On One Hundred Years of Solitude

21 days ago

finished it at midnight and sat with it a while. some books close; this one opens into a kind of silence

★★★★★

On Normal People

22 days ago

the push and pull between connell and marianne is genuinely exhausting in the best way — you want to shake them both and also completely understand why they can't just say the thing

On One Hundred Years of Solitude

23 days ago

the way time moves here is unlike anything else — decades blur and repeat and i'm not sure garcía márquez wants me to keep track

On Pachinko

27 days ago

i wasn't prepared for how quietly devastating the ending would feel — lee trusts her readers to carry what she leaves unsaid

★★★★☆

On The Remains of the Day

1 months ago

miss kenton keeps pressing stevens toward honesty and he just... deflects, every time. the tension is unbearable in the best way.

On Beloved

1 months ago

the way morrison refuses to explain beloved too quickly is doing something to me, every scene with her feels like holding your breath

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