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Mark

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Joined 2 years, 11 months ago

30 // fey af // i try to read but the adhd always wins out in the end

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Kathleen DesMaisons: Potatoes Not Prozac (EBook, 2019, Simon & Schuster) No rating

Potatoes Not Prozac by Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD, the national bestseller that started the sugar-free revolution, …

I specifically stopped reading after Step 1 so that I don't get ahead of myself. I may or may not continue it before I get to the next steps.

commented on Maurice (Twentieth Century Classics) by Edward Morgan Forster (Penguin twentieth-century classics)

Edward Morgan Forster: Maurice (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback, 1992, Penguin Putnam~trade) No rating

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early …

just finished part 1

prose is VERY british and occasionally hard to follow for this poor american sod

but oh god my heart

i can't take it

Oscar Wilde: The uncensored picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback, 2012, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)

More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication …

Gotten my way through the (extensive) introductions. Kinda wish I hadn't read them? Or at least hadn't read the "Textual Introduction" because I think it kinda assumes you've read the book before.

Also got through the first chapter or so. Definitely in line with the "book as philosophical screed" vibe I get from a lot of 19th-century lit, but the prose is gorgeous (though what else is to be expected from Oscar fuckin Wilde)

David Bowles, José Luis Zárate: The Route of Ice and Salt (Paperback, 2021, Innsmouth Free Press)

wow

I have lots of feelings about this book? it's weird as fuck and simultaneously in and out of my wheelhouse, but i'll be damned if i didn't love it despite its flaws

review at some point definitely

(technically i started april 22nd and finished april 23rd but i basically read it in the span or 3 or 4 hours i think)

Allen J Christenson: Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People (EBook, 2007, Mesoweb Publications) No rating

The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the …

I tried to read the latest poetic translation, but while this specific translation is only in prose (though it does preserve a lot of the poetic elements anyway), the extensive footnotes are making it so much easier to read and make sense of.

finished reading Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar: The Last Herald-Mage, #1)

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn (Paperback, 1989, DAW)

Magic's Pawn is a wondrous sci-fi fantasy adventure that centers around Vanyel Ashkevron, young, inexperienced …

couldn't stop a tear from rolling down my cheek at the end 😭

commented on Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar: The Last Herald-Mage, #1)

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn (Paperback, 1989, DAW)

Magic's Pawn is a wondrous sci-fi fantasy adventure that centers around Vanyel Ashkevron, young, inexperienced …

so close to finishing

(I know it's not that long of a book, but it's long to me)

commented on Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar: The Last Herald-Mage, #1)

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn (Paperback, 1989, DAW)

Magic's Pawn is a wondrous sci-fi fantasy adventure that centers around Vanyel Ashkevron, young, inexperienced …

I lied, I didn't stop reading it

but it's still too much for my heart to take

commented on Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey (Valdemar: The Last Herald-Mage, #1)

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn (Paperback, 1989, DAW)

Magic's Pawn is a wondrous sci-fi fantasy adventure that centers around Vanyel Ashkevron, young, inexperienced …

I might have to put this down for now; I don't think my heart can take it