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bird box meets the expanse, to the soundtrack of Bastion

a compilation of book introductions is like a teaser reel, and one by Lethem is bad news bears for my TBR list

this is disgusting and i like it

kitty no!! levin no!! seryozha no!!! anna NOOOOO

tell me another recipe that uses salt, it's so rare

get it together man! don't look in her eyes!!

'one only has to measure Dickens's torrential, visceral engagement with language to know that this is as silly as speculating that Beethoven could have been tempted from music, or De Kooning from paint.'

probably DNF, I thought i liked salt but not this much

everything is spiraling down. ravel's la valse seems the perfect soundtrack at this point, an elegant waltz laced with arsenic, stained glass made with lead

insecure flustered levin hunting snipes is my spirit animal

part five is such a banger!! I feel like I missed something, kitty and levin are streets ahead more interesting than anything anna is doing, skulking dramatically in the background

time to argue about GOD

This Old House but instead of a house it’s a farm and instead of bob vila it’s Levin waxing about socialist wet hay

there are always sad stories about sad horses

reading this on the train is a singular experience. not the least because of the giant title

he works with a toothless excon and voices him as jimmy jr. lololol

wait but lavender iron water actually sounds like a great idea

entering the last chapter, listening to the slow movement of the f minor concerto. do all biographies end the same way?

"It was the last letter than Chopin ever wrote to Sand"

chopin is engaged but starts a liason with George Sand, who is in the middle of a divorce and an affair; so her spurned lover prowls Chopin's apartment with a dagger I cannot take this drama

"his works are cannons buried in flowers"

"It was a beautiful gesture, made all the more poignant by the tide of events that was shortly to drown Poland in blood. ... Although he did not know it, he was leaving his homeland forever."

i feel, glorious, glorious

"One should watch a film adaptation of a favorite book only after considering, very carefully, the fact that the casting of the film may very well become the permanent casting of the book in one’s mind. This is a very real hazard." —Peter Mendelsund

ho boy I just dipped in, already this is shelved next to A Little Life

that’s why I suck at sleeping, it only has Black Hat core drives

what is love if not awkwardly hovering around your crush and following him to hungary

very clipped and strange narratives. uncannily familiar: an undergrad takes intro russian and linguistics, and heads to central europe. and lives on the Red Line in boston...............

i hate that i enjoy this

i'd like to see more psych research please