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As a person obsessed with space, this was one of the books that spurred my obsession with it alongside The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
It’s a puzzle like book so definitely not a normal everyday book to reach out for, but intriguing nevertheless if you enjoy postmodern haunted houses or anything of the sort!
Jan 22, 2024
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Book by Mark Z Danielewski where:
A young LA tattoo artist named Johnny finds an unfinished academic paper (the incomplete life’s work of his friend’s murdered neighbor) that analyzes a cult documentary film, in which a family moves into a strange house, one that changes shape and size and hides an endless labyrinth in its walls. Johnny tries to edit and annotate the text, while journaling about his own life, as he starts to lose his mind.
It’s a story within a story within a story — about obsession, and hell, and grief and finding yourself lost (and I think a lot more), all written in the form of diary entries, transcripts, essays, poems, letters and footnotes.
It reads like a choose your own adventure book, and is itself a monster and a maze. Pretty dark and really beautiful.
Aug 28, 2024
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You know, the kind of books you stare at a wall after finishing, like, “what did I just read?” Books that are trippy or odd or dark or just weird. Books that you don’t totally know how to explain, but stick in your head for a long time afterwards. If you have any recommendations like that, let me know please!!
Jan 19, 2025
a brisk and incredible read that happens to have a setting that is completely at the whims of the sea, a labyrinthine, infinite collection of corridors lined with ornate statues, inside of which an ocean is imprisoned. it’s a great evolution of borgesian magical realism with beautiful prose and a hook that sunk deep into me early on, i lamented closing the final page for weeks after
Jan 23, 2025
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And you’re set for life (with the added effort of maintaining it).
I used to try to surround myself with people who I thought were cool and also tried so bad to fit in. I still do feel conscious about that sometimes when I front for a person I place on a pedestal or really am infatuated with (in a platonic way).
I’ve also had friends I get easily frustrated with who point out my mistakes as jokes but I’ve realised are super flawed and insecure. It becomes a relationship where you slowly turn into a projection of them. (I’m not sure how to phrase it). And I’m the kind that forgives very easily the moment someone is nice to me.
Howeverrrrr… over the past few years and more so over the past year I found a group of people I could be open and comfortable with… and I have to say an open and fulfilling relationship with the right people and friends will make you a much better person overall. I’ve also been so inspired by the circle of friends I’ve got now.
It’s not necessarily the friends who always ask you to go out to shop or hang but the friends who you do things with and talk about anything with.
Gratefully & Gratituously,
I love my friends.
Feb 18, 2024
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If you like Indian Curry… this is a one up. Alternatively… Butter Chicken. My go to when I have prata with a side of Lassi and Coin Prata.
Mar 8, 2024
With the checkerboard at the back? That’s right. I love using them unironically. And I love pictures of rocks.
Feb 22, 2024