SUCH a wild ride, we’ve got an affair, a celeb psychic medium, an inter-dimensional cloud of ancestral grief, a failing marriage (and a pregnancy), the Russian Revolution, generational trauma, Soviet orphanages, and at least three questionable women —I feel like this is a superb book for the Moshfegh, batuman, emma cline, Mona Awad crowds
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Oct 2, 2024
Late news and weather on this one. A depraved little medieval tale about human behavior, society, class and faith, and all the cognitive dissonance and moral fantasy that comes with them. Loved it.
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mostly takes place on the lower east side so nyc romanticism
quick read tbh would rec for anyone who‘s struggling to finish a book
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full of admiration for the woman i saw outside the grocery store this afternoon
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helps me relax when making big and small decisions— everything in life leads to the next thing, no such thing as a wrong decision, etc.
Mar 5, 2024
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I will never not recommend this singular podcast episode (recommended to me by a dear friend from high school), which is so funny, silly, and suspenseful: a man remembers all the words and melodies to a song he heard all the time on the radio in arizona when he was a kid, but there's absolutely zero trace of it online or in our collective memory (except for one obscure internet post in a guitar forum, from a user based out of Trinidad & Tobago). the situation is absurd and it's impossible not to laugh along–– i've listened to this on family road trips, drives with friends, etc, probably 6 or 7 times over the past few years without getting sick of it. My first listen was while running the Central park loop and a stranger flagged me down to say we'd passed each other twice and she had to know how I could laugh and smile so much while running
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