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thoughts |
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currently reading |
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TBD :) |
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currently reading |
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TBD :) |
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currently reading |
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TBD :) |
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september 2025 |
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a beautiful exploration of grief, death and memory. i cried so much reading this,
especially (spoiler) while reading the letter addressed to chongmi from her art classmate,
which showed us a glimpse of who chongmi was through a lens separate from her daughter's
version of her. i related to zauner's insistence on pouring over the specifications of her memories,
almost like she wanted to 'get them right.' i love how she showed the aftershocks of grief,
how the initial blow isn't necessarily the worst part, and how humans revert back
to comfortable yet toxic behaviors when dealing with intense grief. i saw a lot of my own
experience of losing a parent in this text and it was a cathartic read for me. |
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september 2025 |
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literally what the hell!! but in the best way!!
every few pages i kept asking myself, why am i reading this
and why can't i stop? i went into this completely blind and decided
to read it based on the fact that a review on reddit said 'something
depraved happens on every single page of this book' and they're not
entirely wrong but it also wasn't nearly as depraved as i was hoping.
is there something wrong with me? is there something wrong with
moshfegh? well i'm a big fan of whatever's wrong with both of us, so!! |
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september 2025 |
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an interesting look at how social media makes even our relationships
to ourselves parasocial. nothing really happens in this book, but that sort of
seems reflective of the content. when you spend your time obsessing over
another persons' online presence and projecting onto them, you remain stagnant. |
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september 2025 |
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my youth!! honestly i totally forgot how entrenched
in misogyny everything was in the late 90s and early 00s and how girlboss feminism
was a completely predictable cultural reaction even though now we look back at the
feminism of the 2010s as cringey. it was like that for a reason, y'all! also it was nice to read a nonfiction book
where i understood 99% of the references on a deeply spiritual level. |
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august 2025 |
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hahahahaha!!!!! this one pissed me TF off!!!
all i can say is i'm glad i did this with a friend so we could
rant to each other about how ridiculous it was. multiple versions of this
have come out over the last 30 years and none of them talk about phones,
the internet or techonology in general and how it impacts art, how we make it
and what it means to be an artist in modern society. also this workbook requires an absurd
amount of introspection which seems irresonspible considering the author
is not a therapist. the author seems to think that working through/using
your trauma will help you make art... all it did was exhaust me!! morning pages and
artist dates are fine practices. take everything else with a grain of salt. |
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august 2025 |
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so so so so good. pretty identical to the film (a favorite) which
i was happily surprised by. the only difference really is regan is a lot
more vulgar in the novel. also the detective is a lot more annoying lol |
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august 2025 |
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isn't it interesting that you can't describe how something tastes
without using flavors to do so? other senses aren't like that. you can say
something smells like the last day of school and i think people will understand.
you can say something sounds cerulean or looks quiet or feels empty. but taste needs
food and flavors to come alive. i thought about that a lot while reading this. |
august 2025 |
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SOOOOOOO good. i don't think i've ever read a book like this before. non-fiction written
by an investigative journalist in a retelling that reads like fiction. all the layers of how
the stories are told, i think, reflect the complexity of the topic itself, which is women's
desire and how they wield it or how it's wielded against them. |
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august 2025 |
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i really wanted to reread a favorite from when i was in middle school
to see how it might've influenced my style and taste as an adult. first of all,
definitely shouldn't have read this as a middle schooler. second, i totally forgot
the entire plot so it was like reading it for the first time and i genuinely
enjoyed it. i also realized palahniuk hugely informed my taste in that barely
anything phases me no matter how disgusting or violent or extreme it is. thank you, chuck. |
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august 2025 |
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a walk to remember is one of my favorite movies of all time. i thought,
yes i need to read the book! it will be so good! *buzzer sound* WRONG.
i can't believe the beautiful diamonds they made out of the absolute rotten coal
of this book. negative one hundred stars |
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august 2025 |
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snooze. didn't like any of the characters. not enough tension.
didn't care for the secret admirer letter trope. basically it's my own
fault for buying this book because the red flags were right there, girl. |
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august 2025 |
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CUUUUUUUUTE!! screaming and kicking my feet!!! this was a fun one!! |
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august 2025 |
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i hate the trend in contemporary romance where the only type of conflict
allowed is miscommunication. authors (and probably moreso publishers) don't want
characters with real flaws who sometimes do bad things. it makes everything SO boring! |
august 2025 |
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enemies to lovers + close proximity = yes please. yum yum gobble gobble.
but this was just okay. also so many emily henry books have MCs with dead dads?? like, same, but
can we try something new? |
may 2025 |
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i appreciate gilbert's woo-woo nature but i still don't fully trust her. |
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may 2025 |
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LOVE!!! this novel is entirely its own beautiful thing. i stopped reading for a few days
to make the experience last longer. one of those books that reminds me why i love writing. |
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april 2025 |
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it took me SO LONG to finish this one. i wanted to like it more than
i did. i can see myself revisiting this in the future and liking it a lot more on a second go around. |
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april 2025 |
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i love bernadette mayer so so much. her daily poems are especially
my favorite, and i believe this collection is where she began that practice
(or at least choosing some to publish). |
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april 2025 |
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eileen myles for fucking ever. they're such a rockstar. they could
write a book with one word repeating for 500 pages and i would love it, probably. |
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april 2025 |
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make poetry funny and whimsical again!!! |
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april 2025 |
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sometimes i don't totally 'get' dorothea lasky but sometimes i don't care
if i 'get' the poet or the poetry, i just like how it all comes together. |
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february 2025 |
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an absolutely gorgeous debut poetry collection. 'the dog' is one
of my favorite contemporary poems. it's so heartbreaking and beautiful. |
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january 2025 |
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i randomly picked this off my bookshelf and there were photos
of me and my dad inside. he was deeply into studying religion and philosophy
and it felt like he was saying hi from the other side, and also making
a cute lil joke that was just for me. |
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january 2025 |
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this took me an embarrassingly long time to finish. i'm a sucker for
any kind of unique formatting, and this one is the author's diary with the sentences
in alphabetica order (hence the title). the way the sentences would sometimes create new
meaning when placed amongst their alphabetical peers was truly delightful. |