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If on a winter’s night a traveler - italo calvino

I actually read this awhile ago but reread it recently (and I neverrrrr reread stuff so that’s saying smth) because it’s such a fun, experiential read. I am a sucker for a good metafictional shtick (been also meaning to reread Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy, so maybe bit of a theme there to what I feel compelled to reread)

@whoisjillblutt

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if on a winter’s night a traveler- italo calvino

“...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.

@deletedflowers

Mar 3, 2025

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gerald murnane

the australian italo calvino! his 1982 masterpiece The Plains is totally magical, the sort of book where nothing at all happens but youre still totally rapt from page one. it’s about artists and patrons, it’s about the act of creating, it’s about nature, it’s about community, it’s about art. it’s thrilling. it’s haunting. it’s ekphrastic! i love murnane.

@booknotesblog

Apr 9, 2024

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Day after doing all your laundry

Having all my clothes at once to select from feels so awesome, like it’s a video game and I’m selecting my outfit

@jackly1

Jan 28, 2025

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Tap water

There’s something so awesome about filling up a glass straight from the sink and downing it. And then downing another. Tap water is so awesome, feel so blessed I get to drink it all the time.

@jackly1

Jan 24, 2025

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Physical tickets

I know it’s probably better for the environment that movie tickets aren’t printed but damn I love a physical copy of my ticket. Get home, put it in a little box, look back on it a few months later and be like yeah that was a great movie.

@jackly1

Jan 19, 2025

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