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“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
DFW

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day."
DFW

bookmarks:
listography GIVE A GIFT OF MEMORIES
fromblownspea... travel (places i want to see)
books (that i read in 2024)
travel (smithsonian's 28 places to see before you die)
books (1001 Books You Have to Read Before You Die)
  • Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1.5/5)
  • Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves (3/5)
  • Amber Sparks - May We Shed These Human Bodies (2.5/5)
  • Michael Cunningham - A Home at The End of The World (2.5/5)
  • H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (4/5)
  • Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (4/5) ★
  • Joan Bauer - Hope Was Here (2.5/5)
  • Raymond Carver - Cathedral (4/5) ★
  • Lynne Rae Perkins - Criss Cross (5/5) ★
  • Immanuel Kant - Religion Within The Bounds of Bare Reason (3/5)
  • Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (4.5/5)
  • Cormac McCarthy - The Road (3.5/5)
  • Paul Auster - The Man in The Dark (2.5/5)
  • Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me (2.5/5)
  • David Foster Wallace - The Broom of The System (4/5) ★
  • David Foster Wallace - The Pale King (5/5) ★
  • David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (3/5)
  • Thomas Hylland Eriksen - Globalization: The Key Concepts (2/5)
  • Aimee Bender - The Color Master (4/5) ★
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness (4.5/5) ★
  • Aimee Bender - Willful Creatures (4/5) ★
  • John Steinbeck - The Pastures of Heaven (4/5) ★
  • John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men (4/5) ★
  • Joanne Rondilla - Is Lighter Better?: Skin-Tone Discrimination Among Asian-Americans (2.5/5)
  • Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (3/5)
  • Rebecca C. King-O'Rian - Global Mixed Race (1.5/5)

[26/50]

  • Currently: Randall Kennedy - Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption in the US
  • Currently: David Lipsky - Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace
  • Currently: David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

TO-READ

  • John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
  • Carl G. Jung - Memories, Dreams, Reflections
  • Carl G. Jung - Man and His Symbols
  • Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed
  • Sergio de la Pava - A Naked Singularity
  • Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
  • Javier Marias - Tomorrow in The Battle Think on Me
  • Jorge Luis Borges - The Library of Babel
  • David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
  • Dave Eggers - Circle
oct 19 2014 ∞
dec 3 2014 +