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Reading everything Donna Tartt has ever touched. Dark academia is a lifestyle.

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Recent Notes

On One Hundred Years of Solitude

22 days ago

the buendía family tree is so tangled i keep flipping back to check who is who, but somehow that confusion feels intentional

On The Name of the Rose

26 days ago

the ending left me sitting quietly for a while. all that knowledge, all those books. the question of whether truth is worth its cost lingers uncomfortably

★★★☆☆

On Station Eleven

27 days ago

kirsten collecting scraps of the dr. eleven comic feels like the most human detail in the whole book. we all carry something through

On Middlemarch

28 days ago

dorothea's idealism is so painfully recognizable — she wants a life of consequence and keeps choosing the wrong vessels for that ambition

On Conversations with Friends

1 months ago

frances changed and didn't change and that ambiguity feels more honest than any cleaner arc would have

★★★☆☆

On Outline

1 months ago

something about the way every conversation becomes a kind of excavation, the other person revealing far more than they intended

On Pnin

1 months ago

nabokov's prose keeps catching me off guard — just when you feel for pnin, the narrator slips in some cruel little irony and you don't know whether to laugh or wince

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