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Wants to read Elizabeth Taylor a Life in Pictures

Finished reading Project Hail Mary

Rated Speedboat 8/10

Odd and haunting series of vignettes about a reporter, her social circle, New York and the 1970s. Doesn’t really pull together into a plot but it’s worth the trip. Reminds me of Lydia Davis or Donald Barthelme.

Rated Lincoln in the Bardo 10/10

This is an amazing feat of a book made all the better by the exceptionally well-done audiobook, which is how I read it. This might be the best book I've read so far this year.

Finished reading Cosmoknights, Vol. 2

Rated Thud! 9/10

Rated Ender’s Game 4/10

Finished reading Every Heart a Doorway

Wants to read Café Society: Socialites, Patrons, and Artists 1920-1960

Rated I Am Not a Robot 7/10

i can’t stand people arguing that _now_ anyone can be a coder.this was always true, and if you’re only making this argument now bc you prompted something into existence then you’re not a coder.also marked down for jonathan haidt legitimization.

Wants to read Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Rated Mockingjay 8/10

Wants to read Vogue and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute: Parties, Exhibitions, People

Rated You Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes 6/10

A quick read about the communities that have formed around two very different music acts - Insane Clown Posse and Phish - that seem to occupy their own distinct universes, outside the music industry proper. It's also a book *about* the process of writing a book about ICP and Phish. While there's a lot of insight about what these two acts are all about and how they've built their own subcultures, there's also a ton about the emotional states that occupy the author as he tries to explore these subcultures; you see the ostensible subject of the book only darkly through the glass of Rabin's personal turmoil and the heroic amount of drugs he encounters along the way, so if that's the sort of thing that annoys you as a reader, this book isn't for you. You come away from the book with a weird empathy with the people who wind up in the ICP/Phish world, many of whom are very much on the outside fringes of society.

Finished reading Saga, Volume 3

Rated The Year of Magical Thinking 8/10

Rated The House in the Cerulean Sea 9/10

Finished reading 1Q84

Finished reading Saga, Volume 2

Rated The 5th Wave 2/10

Rated The Fifth Elephant 9/10

Rated The Fury of the Gods 9/10

Rated The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 7/10

Rated The Hunger Games 10/10

Rated The Last Olympian 8/10