finished reading The Jakarta Method 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
no words yet!! later
ok update: required reading perhaps. made me wanna quit a certain brand of us made cultural products cold turkey... gonna try to watch the doc on this one (i think its called the act of killing)
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wants to read El arte nuevo de hacer libros
wants to read Our Share of Night
wants to read The Obscene Bird of Night
wants to read Care
wants to read A Psalm for the Wild-Built
started reading The Jakarta Method
finished reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
that was so nice 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
wants to read My Tender Matador
wants to watch Sweet Charity
finished reading Ways to Disappear 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
aight!!! more thoughts later perhaps
finished playing Balatro
time to start playing The Other Efficiency-seeking Deckbuilder game until i'm allowed to play slay the spire 2
finished playing Slay the Spire
i will return to slay the spire, but im still salty about the glitch that took away my first (and to this date, only) win with ironclad.
8.4.25 - i've now reached ascension 2 on every character and im taking another break c:
finished reading The Extinction of Irena Rey 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
this is what im talkin Abouttt
updated review post reading 8/4 -
hm... HMMM... i need to give this book a lot of props because i dug it for so so so so so so so many reasons that are so up my particular alley (translation, art, environmentalism, extremely specific and comprehensive lists of cultural and historical and geographical and ecological facts, autofiction, women who lie and hit each other and kill each other)... there was a Lot that frustrated me about this book ('something' darker = blood on snow made me mad for real lmao)... but i think its a whole over parts kind of situation here. billions of parts... one part which is tripping me out is 'the extinction of irena rey's connection to menippean satire which i discovered by strange happenstance tonight, a few hours after finishing 'extinction'... i was researching the short story 'there will come soft rains' because today is 'there will come soft rains' day... i opened the website 'www.libraryofshortstories.com' and came across a dostoevsky joint called 'the dream of a ridiculous man'... in 'the dream of a ridiculous man' there is a date mentioned, november 3rd, which is an extremely prominent date in 'the extinction of irena rey'... after reading the short story 'the dream of a ridiculous man' i had to do a little research because it was so moving and impactful... i came to find out 'the dream of a ridiculous man' is something called a menippean satire, along with 'finnegans wake', which is the book 'the extinction of irena rey' was originally pitched to me as an alternative to (as in, someone said to read 'extinction' instead of 'finnegans wake')... this review is really disjointed but i needed to outline that particular coincidence... i think i'm a menippean satire enjoyer... in fact, i think i'd recommend anyone looking to read this book first read the 'the dream of a ridiculous man' Then the 'menippean satire' wikipedia page, THEN 'the extinction of irena rey' for ultimate effect... ALSO for anyone who loves reading fanfiction by people with hyperspecific jobs, this one is for you because author croft does have the same hyperspecific job as the main character... some have argued the autofiction levels of this book have reached RPF levels, which i can't comment on but there's that as well......... 4 stars and i didn't even like it that much. 4 stars and almost dnf'd it about 80% of the way through.... does this make sense??????? this book is not necessarily something i like, but i also do like it and it's something i respect deeply. Does This Make Sense????
wants to read Nightwood
wants to read Ways to Disappear
wants to read The Master and Margarita
finished reading The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗