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Bud’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bud’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Yes, all nudity becomes mundane and no big deal after about two hours.
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Teenager: A Novel
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2022
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Work
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2017
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F250
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2014
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Double Bird
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2018
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Tollbooth
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2013
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Or Something Like That
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2012
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Calm Face
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2016
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Dust Bunny City
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2017
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Everything Neon
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2014
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I'm From Electric Peak
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2016
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The End of Good Luck
Hello hello,
I just wrapped up a year long (plus some) project called Good Luck, which is an experimental novel that was serialized, as it was written, at The Nervous Breakdown.
The project is about memory/the self, art, labor, and love.
The project was initially spurred by the death of my dear friend Chuck Howe, upset by the absurd news of his passing (he died of heart failure while laughing on the
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| Have been making my way, hopping and leaping, through the classics and/or into the myths as the wandering path reveals. A recent re-read of a couple different translations of Beowulf, and that dragon on his horde of gold, led me to my first Icelandic ...more | |
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| At the beginning of the year, my friend Casey Burchbee asked if I wanted to read one of his favorite novels, Njal’s Saga, with him. Of course I did. But then life happened and it’s only here at the very end of the year that I got into Njal’s Saga. I ...more | |
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Hell yeah, it’s a great book! And I do agree with Greek MCU haha
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| One of the most potent of the Greek tragedies. And probably the last of them I’ll read for awhile. The other day someone mentioned to me that they thought of the whole of the Ancient Greek oeuvre as a kind of MCU-situation, meaning this play connects ...more | |
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| Bounced around the Penguin Classics version of 1001 Nights this year. Here and there. Bobbing and weaving. Some evenings I’d read a tale or two … but I feel like it’ll be a lifetime of bobbing and weaving through these famous tales | |
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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“Somehow I fell asleep in the graveyard.”
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