beautiful beautiful story following a single chess game and the players behind it, set post world war II. makes you think and feel deeply. i read the entire thing on a single flight and think about it often. i really really wanna be able to read it in german one day.
Dec 4, 2024
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just finished this after reading about 30 pages a day, it's p much philosopher fanfic but i love all the nuggets of real therapy ideas thrown in there and it's dialogue heavy so it's easy to read!
Feb 7, 2024
โ...we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears."
second calvino of the year after invisible cities. very meta, which in less serious hands could become cloying. it manages to work out.
you (the real you, not the second perspective protagonist of most of the book) will think about the act of reading in a different way by the end of it, or at least become more conscious of it. so read if you like to read and read about reading.
Mar 3, 2025
just finished this morning while sitting outside my apartment with a cup of coffee and an american spirit and holy shit the last chapter may have been one of the most devastating vibes i've felt... just like all of history, everything that's mattered, swept into oblivion by the closures of story, prophesy, and family lines... so so so good u should read it but be warned that every paragraph in this book is full to the brim with activity, everything feels as if its happening all at once for the entire four hundred something pages
Jun 20, 2024
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i went to the paris catacombs yesterday with my boyfriend and it was sooooo cool
Nov 29, 2024
i love a good americano. one of the simplest and tastiest variations on coffee. tastes even better in europe with a hand rolled cigarette. cigarette not pictured.
Nov 26, 2024
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my boyfriend got me the stardew valley cookbook for my birthday and i want to make every single recipe but most of them are soooo complicated like how tf am i supposed to recreate void mayonnaise (the strange bun recipe calls for TWO WHOLE LOBSTERS)
Nov 25, 2024