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Another side read from the library There’s something about a hot humid evening, a greasy cigar, and a book that rolls up into a perfect whole

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve started becoming one of those people who writes to his representatives a lot It’s easy - and the literal, actual least one can do Again, I prefer to avoid politics on here, and my audience is puny. But especially in the wake of No Kings, it’s time to add pressure.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How do we bring literary salons back No book group I’ve joined has ever really scratched the itch I just want to nerd out with people

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

#booksky #writingcommunity

submitted 2 days ago • 175 comments

Probably could have chosen a better year for it, but learning to be better at letting go of frustrations and anger has probably been the single greatest life enhancer I’ve challenged myself with this year At some point you gotta realize all you’re doing is beating yourself up

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Reading people talk about investing and the market is like watching a garbage production of Waiting for Godot “VLADIMIR: Well? Shall it go up? ESTRAGON: Yes, it will go up It does not go up.” Of all the random hyper fixations I’ve managed to kick to the curb, this is the one I’m most glad about

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

What a fantastic confrontation between the author and his own soul. I’ve been slowly reading this in addition to the rest - I have the large edition with his art and mandalas as well, but am very happy to have this. The larger edition is quite hard to handle for reading!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I haven’t read this in many years…. Nor seen the movie (on HBO Max it seems) for just as long. Interested to see how it hits now…

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Going to Montreal has convinced me to pick up learning French again. Figured this would be good to bang my head against…

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So uh between the quality of the bookstores and record stores I sorta want to move to Montreal not even for political reasons

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t figure out how to unlink instagram from Threads Annoyed that I’m counting as an “active user” of Threads because of it

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

30 lbs down 💪 Probably 30 to go but still

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Flying back to his war-torn native country, grappling with a fear of flying, and gripped with thoughts of his friend, who was convinced Thomas Bernhard was stealing his ideas…

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Heading to Montreal soon and wondering if some irate québécois are going to beat my American ass in the street

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Alright I try to keep politics off my feed but is there any reason we’re antagonizing him for backing down when that’s exactly what we wanted to happen

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Master Kobayashi really knows how to live

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments