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the location of culture by homi k bhabha, the last samurai by helen dewitt, life and opinions of tristram shandy, plays by chekhov
Oct 16, 2024
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Mrs. Dalloway: a classic and a masterpiece. It’s a love story.
The baron in the trees: weird and allegorical. A boy goes up into the trees and never comes down.
Memoirs of Hadrian: the only historical fiction I’ve ever loved. Published by a French woman in the 50s after a decades long obsession with the project.
The last samurai: by Helen Dewitt unrelated to the Tom Cruise movie of the same name. A totally original story about the life of the mind.
Family lexicon: a spare memoir/novel about growing up in an anti-fascist family during the rise of Mussolini.
Remains of the day: how does Kazuo Ishiguro do it? He also wrote Klara and the sun rec’d above. Ending is wow.
More: East of Eden, Middlemarch, The things they carried, Close to the knives, Giovanni’s room, Just kids, The Road, The myth of Sisyphus
Apr 30, 2024
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• a fine balance, rohinton misty
• all about love, bell hooks
• how to love, thich nhat hanh
• cold enough for snow, jessica au
• cultish: the language of fanaticism, amanda montell
• alone with you in the ether, olivie blake
• the concise laws of human nature, robert greene
• ways of seeing…
May 25, 2024
This is actually just a list of my favourite reads so if you do check them out maybe I'll fall in love with you...
-The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
-At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
-Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
-This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
-Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
-Foster by Claire Keegan
-Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
-Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
-Everything Salley Rooney and George Orwell :P
Jan 23, 2024
Top Recs from @berniejulia
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the greatest album of all time. americana at its finest....
Nov 30, 2024
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Don't just reel in the good ol' days... let them consume you like a whale. No new generation can take lived experience turned nostalgia away from those who were really there. Stay up extra extra extra late, tossing and turning in bed, rattling your mind about a time you'll never get back (and probably wasn't even as good as the way you put it on a pedestal today). Will we get memories when we die?
Oct 16, 2024
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the girlies were right. i've been doing a vinyasa flow daily and now my mind + body can't function without it. i did read somewhere that the beatles stopped doing drugs because yoga became their drug lmao
Feb 4, 2025