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The central theme of death flourishes in the range from 70 - now.

Finished the first part on Syvert, whose story irritated me enough that I had to keep reading. Became swept up in his story to not stop reading.

Just finished the chapter titled Vibeke and I very much enjoyed the descriptions of Ase.

Bit of a turn towards philosophy with perhaps Knausgård’s own voice.

Bit of a turn towards philosophy with perhaps Knausgård’s own voice.

Read the titular story of her first collection in the book, "Break it Down" and it's one of those fast moving Joyce-esque of 1 sentence is a paragraph but the conclusion has one of those questions that we'll never answer but always have it banging around our head.

And the second day begins.

Ordinary lives filled with the strange and sudden interjections of hallucinations, drugs, and insensate thoughts. We're at a weird place now.

Straight through to the 2nd POV of the priest. I find her story so far to be the most compelling; she is also the most flawed, so far though every POV is flawed.

Knausgård is famed for his ability to describe the mundane and have it registered as extraordinary. This remains true despite the antipathy I am currently approaching this book. His writing is unadorned, plain, and easy to digest.

I don't want to keep reading this book but its passages have already laid their tracks in my mind. How annoying to be so gripped.

The congresswoman, the women, and the reporter’s threads emerged out of the crushing depression of the crime reports and flew to part V.

Why two Pedro’s, why

Strange hypnotic buildup to the crimes section through the fake framework of a boxing match.

Really only became meaningful at the end of part 2, where author describes the terror and joy of reading great books - where a reader is afraid to go into thought combat.

A very confused meandering

Very quick, fun, and historical read.

The tale of Town Ho was a mini slog in itself

Recently passed the soliloquy on whiteness. It's mostly a good book filled with random acts of terror on one's mind.

Already chuckled to myself a few times and I like Rachel’s inner writing voice. It’s sad that I only learned of her clear thoughts until after she has passed but I look forward to reading her other works as well.

Writing is great but man do the stories really smack you where it hurts. Just got to the story where they based the episode on the remaining dogs in Chernobyl. Read it, and I’m going to have to come back to the book later. Every chapter feels like this where the feelings just make it too much to read more than one at a time.