On Invisible Cities
3 days ago
the cities of the dead mirroring the cities of the living — that section stopped me cold for a minute
Riley Robinson
@riley.r
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Rereader. Some books I have opened four times and still find new rooms.
Recent Notes
On The Buried Giant
19 days ago
the fog over post-roman britain feels less like weather and more like a shared forgetting — ishiguro makes the landscape do so much quiet work
On The Overstory
23 days ago
came for the environmental urgency and stayed for the grief underneath it, the quiet mourning for what's already gone
On Lincoln in the Bardo
24 days ago
never read anything quite structured like this, part novel part chorus part historical collage, it keeps surprising me every few pages
On Gilead
25 days ago
thinking about how robinson uses light — sunlight keeps returning, ordinary midwestern light made to feel like grace
On The Secret History
29 days ago
richard's final sense of displacement — belonging nowhere, not even to his own past — is what lingers most, more than any single event
On Never Let Me Go
1 months ago
the friendship between kathy and ruth is so complicated already. ruth is magnetic and infuriating and i can't look away
On Stoner
1 months ago
how williams makes an ordinary academic life feel both small and vast at the same time is something i keep thinking about