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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
4.0
awesome. stretches long long long across a lifetime lived and learned. makes me love love and makes me feel okay with the idea of waiting for it. so heartbreaking to live a complete life. so scary to see how ideologies and countries change over the course of a lifetime
Exiles by James Joyce
5.0
i did not like the ending that much tbh but indubitably my favorite joyce i've read thus far... lowkey so fire. like Conversations Between Friends but more irish and more old school of course. love that it took place over such a short span of time. love lovee the structure of it and how all the four entangled characters get one on one time and their own strange relationships. awesome. the consistency with the milkman motif is hilarious also fun easter egg
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
4.0
What part of the spiral are you on? Very interesting reflection on the uncertainty of facts. Everything is subject to question
Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction by Elliott Liu
3.5
it’s difficult to find a book critiquing maoism that isn’t entrenched in sinophobia i think but this is succinct and clear. would be interesting to see something more in depth
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
2.0
so british. probably shouldn’t have started in the middle of the series but i had a lot of trouble understanding tbh
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
3.0
slow at first but picks up around canto 27… love all the crazy emanationist stuff and dante’s commitment to feeling special about himself. really interesting stuff about mary and eve tbh noah you can have your book back now even though i kind of destroyed it by having it in my bag for six months
Trans Girl Suicide Museum by Hannah Baer
3.0
i think i don’t particularly enjoy this style of writing and i think i have a hard time understanding what hannah is saying to make herself feel good and what is actually vulnerable but interesting and thoughtful and i like the metaphor of a museum
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault
4.0
interesting ideas of truth and confession— what value we place on the “truth” and the idea of sex as a secret and as a subconscious….