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things fall apart the center cannot hold and me i feel also not so good

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my quest to read light books in the dark months has already failed but The Beetle in the Anthill does deliver the same disorienting beauty as Roadside Picnic

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so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh

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I see there’s a new Wayward Children book! If my pattern of loving half of them holds, this one will be great

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highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

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sorry I know I keep talking about my fragile constitution re: books in the winter but. I want to read this year’s Best American Science & Nature Writing, I really do. But page one is like “we will all die of climate change-related illness. People you know will die” and I just. Well.

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My book total for 2024 was 102, with quite a few single-issue comics and manga in the mix. I wasn’t trying for any particular goal this year and won’t next year either. I want to read lighter, more fun books in January-March, including possibly some humor-romance, a pretty much unknown genre for me. My next long book will probably be The Power Broker. I need to get through some of my piles very badly; we’re beginning to compare the book piles to those videos where cats jump over successively higher barriers, since the dog sometimes vaults the book piles to get into my bed

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lichens at the lichen new years party and they say 'heres to another prosperous 0.002 millimeters of growth everyone the sands of time march on!!' and they all absorb passing nutrient dust at the same time

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happy birthday everyone

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i almost watched a film once

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In a historic race against Libby to read a book that will be returned in seven hours

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I keep setting myself new “must finish this bleak book before the holiday happiness buff wears off” challenges

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wolf hall. send post.

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picture of a cute innocent baby animal "um this is who youre being mean to btw" thats not even true man youre a straight up vampire and you destroyed my village with your dark powers

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wolf hall. send post.

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world’s most annoying person: AI is going to destroy the world. one chatgpt query causes one nuclear bomb explosion and nobody is sentient anymore because of too much AI

me: i don’t think that is true

other most annoying person: buy my new AI cryptocurrency printer