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Lost Ark Dreaming
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    No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus

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  • Crazy Genie
    alehouse
    May 20, 2026
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    god this book is devastating. i put it on hold at the library a few weeks ago and picked it up today totally forgetting what it’s about.

    this books is full of juxtapositions, but they never feel like they’re meant to be oppositional (i’m not sure if that makes sense). they are not presented to balance each other or have some causal relationship. they just simply are.

    the language is lush and lyrical in its descriptions of the flowers, trees, and creatures. and straightforward in the most gutting scenes. cagnati doesn’t linger in any moment, moving swiftly from one moment to the next. in less capable hands, i think this would feel unbearable and overwhelming. here, we pause in marie’s tender admiration of the natural world, right before ricocheting into the next cruelty.

    i don’t know that i’ve ever read something so sad and so beautiful. it feels incredibly human and natural. there’s no ontological evil, but we are capable of some horrors. all of this is reflected in the nature here, too.

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