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Not really sure where this is going thus far-- interesting commentary on pain and facades but the plot seems kinda draggy and predictable. We'll see

Being a self eviscerating woman is kinda the vibe rn tbh

Lethem is pretty darn good at capturing a moment in time. Unfortunately there's a bit of filler when ya get to this point tho

omg WHAT just happened

Picked this back up bc bored

Life During Wartime by Talking Heads mentioned?!!!!


Fav song ever I love writers who include music

Cannibalism is such an ideologically American thing let's debate

See other symbols/motifs: the road, fringes of society, predatory actions w/ men towards women, Christian religious dominance, vaguely anarchist bent (self-reliance), truth and hearsay, minimum wage jobs that continue the cycle of poverty

Lmk

What a metaphor damn

I genuinely went into a bookstore today and didn’t buy anything because I am paralyzed by choice. Need a shorter tbr

Dylan and Mingus’ friendship is so interesting and so typical of any 11 year old boys. And apparently Dylan is having a superhero training montage??

There ARE NO GOOD PEOPLE HERE because everyone is trying to act selfless while secretly entertaining a fantasy that serves themselves. Reid is such an apt situation writer.

Just made a romance display at the library…. Gotta give the people what they want… I guess

Weird ever-present anxiety and discomfort

brooklyn is rendered like a love story

Nabbed a $2.99 copy of ‘the picture of dorian gray’ Life is great. AND its the one with the singer sargent portrait on the cover!!

Another work read. Prose is simple and magicish

very readable!! this book is so aware of itself which is why it works in reese witherspoon's book club

The thing about ebooks is I feel like a fake reader because I look like I’m just on my phone or kindle being an ipad kid. It doesn’t help that I happen to read them 50% faster too..

I thought it was all working out and then its not?

nina lacour i love you

Omg this is going somewhere!!! I like a light read sometimes guys

LA is so unreal

this got subtextually existential real quick

nature runs its course

"Nevertheless, life is pleasant, life is tolerable. Tuesday follows Monday; then comes Wednesday. The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth."

- p 185

Me resisting the urge to call any novel like this “a series of vignettes”

Ugh every sentence I read in this book is puzzling, mind-boggling, revelation. All is one and beautiful. I feel insane

Baby’s first NYRB classic

Friendships are falling apart, marriages are fracturing, and intellectual conversations are being had. It seems that everything in this book is a set of concentric circles orbiting class and gender and education and Vittoria.

Slacking on gr again