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Incredibly painful & illuminating book of poetry about Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and then Fukushima. If you don't know more than the basics (I didn't), this work is educational both practically and emotionally. I think there's a certain kind of consciousness-raising specific to political poets and I've only encountered it a few times in my life, and this book is one of them. It's short, it's approachable, and I recommend it to everyone.
Oct 22, 2024
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read it forever ago and i don't think i'll ever forget it
heartbreaking tho - based on the experiences of a hiroshima survivor
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📖the goldfinch - donna tartt
- my favourite novel of all time. it puts my sorry ass into perspective
the setting sun - osamu dazai - a pi.fyi rec !! pretty prose… waiting for the cryfest
regarding the pain of others - susan sontag - there is feeling pain yourself and then there is the empathy of watching someone in pain and trying to imagine that pain on to yourself. basically no matter how hard you try, it’s never done justice from our privileged position of not being in pain. thinking abojt this in regards to the shared images of the Palestinian and Sudanese genocide
the setting sun - osamu dazai - a pi.fyi rec !! pretty prose… waiting for the cryfest
regarding the pain of others - susan sontag - there is feeling pain yourself and then there is the empathy of watching someone in pain and trying to imagine that pain on to yourself. basically no matter how hard you try, it’s never done justice from our privileged position of not being in pain. thinking abojt this in regards to the shared images of the Palestinian and Sudanese genocide
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📙I read this book last summer and am re-reading it now because it’s so good. One of those “tell everyone you know to read it” books. She’s a poet turned essayist and she’s just got such a gift for articulating pain and humor and trauma and things that should be boring but aren’t. This collection is funny, it’s heartbreaking, it’s honest, it’s vulnerable. She’s the kind of writer most people wish they were (myself included).
Apr 20, 2021
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📖I feel like 12 is a wonderful place to start. 1 book a month. Keep it in your bathroom. Beside your bed. Where you eat your meals. Please read this year. It's one of the best things you can do for yourself. and for me, and for everyone who you'll tell, I'm reading again, and you should read with me too. Take pictures or screencaps of passages and send them to your friends. Read funny, easy books, evil and upsetting books, books that are boring but are still satisfying to finish. Go to the library. Challenge yourself. You will feel better, you'll feel proud of yourself, and you'll banish the negative moodlet of being mad or ashamed at yourself for not reading. It's ok that you haven't been. You had your reasons and it doesn't do any good to beat up on yourself. That was then and this was now. Start a book tomorrow bc it is a new day :)
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🗺be giving, accept graciously, be thankful, withdraw when it's wise
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🧠I don't listen to any AI generated playlists because I prefer to hear ones curated by people. I love sharing music as a human to human thing. It's also dismaying how music streaming services prioritize the songs of artists whose management pay them, etc.
It's so fun to simply browse anonymous person's curated lists instead on top of sharing with friends. It's never been easier to peek into someone else's semi-private music preference and walk their landscape. Just today I found a person who's made dozens of playlists for specific beanie babies (!), all with no saves or likes.
We don't need AI driven sorting to develop taste and find things we like. Break out of the corral with me and run free. Let's see what's over the hill
It's so fun to simply browse anonymous person's curated lists instead on top of sharing with friends. It's never been easier to peek into someone else's semi-private music preference and walk their landscape. Just today I found a person who's made dozens of playlists for specific beanie babies (!), all with no saves or likes.
We don't need AI driven sorting to develop taste and find things we like. Break out of the corral with me and run free. Let's see what's over the hill