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houk
houk is 32% done with Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
"we seek in certain narratives a prismatic image of our own."

hm. you don't say..
Apr 15, 2025 04:50PM Add a comment
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

houk
houk is 29% done with Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
i keep typing out and deleting stuff to put here. i don't think anything could possibly capture the mess of Feeling it's pulling from me. i'm a little dread-sick, i think
Apr 15, 2025 03:27PM Add a comment
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

houk
houk is 16% done with Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
rip igby slocumb you would've loved foster dade
Apr 15, 2025 08:14AM Add a comment
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

houk
houk is 3% done with Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
"adolescence is an exercise in coveting what exists just beyond our grasp; it is this inaccessibility that sustains its magic. at sixteen, i saw in the mosaic of these arbitrary artifacts the spectral contours of a life that shimmered precisely in its evasiveness, gesturing to something i could ascertain only in voyeurism."

keep smiling while reading bc this prose is intoxicating. so excited to keep reading :']
Apr 14, 2025 11:41AM Add a comment
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

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trying SO hard not to compare the current read to tsh. it's so hard!!!! i can't help the fact that The Only Story I Will Ever Be Able To Tell has woven itself so deeply into the fabric of Who I Am that i cannot extricate myself from it!!!! that's not my fault!!!!! it's too early for a re-read...and far too warm outside. i miss it, though--just for you to know.
Apr 14, 2025 11:33AM Add a comment

houk
houk is 2% done with Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
"the half-paralysis of my own sense of unbelonging, lacking that innate interior alchemy that would allow me to push myself from the ranks of the supporting cast."

too early to say anything with certainty, but this may become a shattering addition to a very specific type of affecting novel for Me Personally. stay tuned...
Apr 14, 2025 11:27AM Add a comment
Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos

houk
houk is 75% done with Old Soul
have been engaged the whole time but things are really picking up here. enjoying! having fun! i'm intrigued and excited to see where things end up
Apr 12, 2025 11:52AM Add a comment
Old Soul

houk
houk is 70% done with Flights
oh brother i'm kinda slogging through but i will finish this book. i've come this far i guess
Apr 07, 2025 12:50PM Add a comment
Flights

houk
houk is on page 59 of 166 of Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
"I'M TOO ALONE IN THE WORLD, YET NOT ALONE ENOUGH / TO MAKE EACH HOUR HOLY."
Apr 01, 2025 07:12PM Add a comment
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

houk
houk is 9% done with Flights
oh lord they got a guy named roman in here...
Apr 01, 2025 03:52PM Add a comment
Flights

houk
houk is 6% done with Flights
"my weakness is for teratology and for freaks. i believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.
the hideous metal skeleton that suddenly pops out from the velvet upholstery; the eruption of a spring from within a cushioned armchair that shamelessly debunks any illusion of softness."
Apr 01, 2025 03:27PM Add a comment
Flights

houk
houk is 7% done with Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
i have got to stop listening before bed bc i have accidentally listened to it all the way through in my sleep twice. maybe i'm osmosising it or something
Apr 01, 2025 10:24AM Add a comment
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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ugh had to dnf i'm a fan. i was, obviously, Not one.
Apr 01, 2025 10:18AM Add a comment

houk
houk is on page 56 of 166 of Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
"now he is alone. / i think he must still exist, / for no one does to him what he did to me."

"i sense my older brother lies awake / as if accused. / night offers itself to me, / not to him."

ohhhhhh rilke when i get you rilke
Apr 01, 2025 08:30AM Add a comment
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

houk
houk is 86% done with Mona Acts Out
i am especially tired of this subplot. across the board. very rarely is it handled with the care it deserves, as this one is notedly Not.
Mar 28, 2025 11:38AM Add a comment
Mona Acts Out

houk
houk is 62% done with Mona Acts Out
i hope you all see in me not only the "martyred outrage" but also "haunted fragility" <3
Mar 28, 2025 07:39AM Add a comment
Mona Acts Out

houk
houk is 35% done with Mona Acts Out
sigh... i'm beginning to feel like this specific brand of "woman living life For Herself in a nuanced and complicated but Human way" novel is getting old; perhaps i've read too many and am thus growing tired, but it's beginning to feel grating. i know there are still some that do it and do it Well, but they feel fewer and further between. good luck, charlie
Mar 27, 2025 11:57AM Add a comment
Mona Acts Out

houk
houk is 46% done with The Safekeep
reminds me of delicious life in its simultaneous hungry and tender prose. delicate and full-bodied. ugh. this is literature for Lovers.
Mar 17, 2025 11:42AM Add a comment
The Safekeep

houk
houk is 26% done with The Safekeep
"she thought that might have been joy, or something like it. something that feels sad as much as it feels like love."

Um Yeah I'm Locked In
Mar 17, 2025 09:36AM Add a comment
The Safekeep

houk
houk is 20% done with The Butcher of the Forest
kinda iffy atp but i'm too far into it to give up now
Mar 12, 2025 12:30PM Add a comment
The Butcher of the Forest

houk
houk is 92% done with Private Rites
this damn water motif...
Mar 06, 2025 07:05AM Add a comment
Private Rites

houk
houk is on page 58 of 166 of Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
"i wait listening, always. / just give me a sign! / i'm right here. / as it happens, the wall between us / is very thin. why couldn't a cry / from one of us / break it down? it would crumble / easily, / it would barely make a sound."
Mar 06, 2025 05:24AM Add a comment
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

houk
houk is on page 47 of 166 of Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
"i know that nothing has ever been real / without my beholding it. / all becoming has needed me. / my looking ripens things / and they cone toward me, to meet and be met."
Mar 06, 2025 05:22AM Add a comment
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

houk
houk is 79% done with Private Rites
"the memory is a neat-edged knife pressed tight into her ribcage--a quick slit, a gentle downward slicing."
Mar 05, 2025 11:12AM Add a comment
Private Rites

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houk added a status update
finished anthropocene and library last month silently on accident... halfway through book of hours so i fear the goodreads tl will be inundated with houkalerts and rilkeposting when i get off work... my b y'all

in other news, i am so thoroughly saddened, frustrated, and generally unsatisfied in so many avenues of life rn that i can no longer resist dostoy's pull. demons, ur time is now
Mar 05, 2025 08:05AM Add a comment

houk
houk is 52% done with Private Rites
"funny too, despite this, to recognize their weak moments of alliance, of affection . . . the three of them, trying to be less isolated and frequently failing, trying to be less conclusively the product of their past."

u already know what i'm thinking
Mar 03, 2025 11:33AM Add a comment
Private Rites

houk
houk is 36% done with Private Rites
"the problem has always been the way he left them alone in the house for long periods, the way he spoke to his daughters, the way he pitted one against the other--left each to struggle for a love they should have known they couldn't earn. the problem has always been squaring one fact with another, her father's great ease and easy cruelty."
Mar 03, 2025 07:33AM Add a comment
Private Rites

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rlly wanting to add what i talk about when i talk about running to the tbr but seeing as i've held off for so long with the intention only to pick it up when i myself have acquired the habit... perhaps it's finally time...
Mar 01, 2025 11:33AM Add a comment

houk
houk is 21% done with Private Rites
"she remembers him looking at her--opaque expression of one thinking of something else--imagines she is eight again, thirteen again, and the nothing she always was in his company."

king lear retellings we are SO back!!!! roman roy you will always be famous
Mar 01, 2025 08:35AM Add a comment
Private Rites

houk
houk is 21% done with Private Rites
oughhh there's nothing like a king lear retelling. thank you three siblings with an ever-present father figure who permeates their lives even after death; thank you succession, thank you shakespeare, thank you julia armfield
Mar 01, 2025 08:33AM Add a comment
Private Rites

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