On The Poetics of Space
24 days ago
the nest chapter is so tender. the way he writes about roundness and shelter makes you feel the whole world is trying to curl inward
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Grey afternoons and devastating last pages. Coffee always.
Recent Notes
On Station Eleven
27 days ago
the way all the threads finally converge is so delicate. nothing is forced and yet everything connects back to everything else
On Outline
29 days ago
the man on the plane who keeps reappearing — his stories about his marriages feel like a funhouse mirror held up to something unspoken
On The Goldfinch
29 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
1 months ago
kafka on the shore is ultimately about memory and the stories we carry inside us, and finishing it feels like waking from a very long, necessary dream
On The Overstory
1 months ago
can't stop thinking about how small the human timelines feel against the redwoods, powers does this almost without trying
On Gilead
1 months ago
john ames writing letters to his young son he'll never see grow up — the tenderness here is almost unbearable