On Piranesi
18 days ago
the ending has this bittersweet quality i keep turning over, the house gave him something no other world could, and leaving it costs something real
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Recent Notes
On The Lost World
28 days ago
the iguanodons feel surprisingly real for 1912 — doyle clearly did his homework with the paleontology of his day
On Piranesi
1 months ago
finding myself reading slowly to stay inside the house longer, the way the light moves through the upper halls is described so beautifully
On Piranesi
1 months ago
piranesi's absolute trust in the house, his gratitude for its fish and its statues, makes him one of the most quietly moving narrators i've read
On Conversations with Friends
2 months ago
came away thinking about how rooney makes ordinary bourgeois social life feel genuinely high-stakes without ever being melodramatic
On A Little Life
2 months ago
malcolm and jb feel a little peripheral right now but jude and willem are pulling all the gravity in the room toward them
On The Road
3 months ago
mccarthy describes ash and cold and gray in so many variations you start to feel the color has genuinely left the world.
On Normal People
3 months 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