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nellvance

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Classic Literature from the United States
Made for the Movies
Gothic Literature
My Taste
The Haunting of Hill House
Sea of Tranquility
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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House of LeavesThe Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher CreativityDoppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
    question about the ending
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  • Cloud Cuckoo Land
    nellvance
    Jan 09, 2026
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    anthony doerr said fuck ai give me something human!! a story about the stories that help us “slip the trap” of living at the end of the world (just like everyone who has ever lived). extremely earnest, and occasionally a tiny bit sappy for my taste but mostly it was so hopeful and gorgeously written. despite long and frequent paragraphs of description i never felt my attention wander. it kept my childlike wonder alive, and i always held onto the possibility that at any moment a character would transform into a bird and take us away from this world and that’s what it’s all about!

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  • The Hounding
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    This book is so cool! It has the vibe of if little women was written by Shirley Jackson. It’s that type of uncomfortable mundane that Shirley wrote

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    Thoughts from 35% (page 200/end of ch 7) - best and worse pov characters

    i’m curious who people’s favorite and least favorite perspective characters to follow were while reading (pls weigh in but no spoilers). so far i care the least about konstance’s chapters because she doesn’t have much personality and the world of the ship is less beautifully realized than the others, though i’m sure she’ll become more important later on. loving everyone else’s chapters but especially seymour and zeno.

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  • Golem
    nellvance
    Dec 28, 2025
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  • to the people that dog ear

    i need to ask, how much of the corner do you fold down? is it the same for every book? is it different? what parameters do you try to follow? do you dog ear library books? because i just found the left over crease from what used to be a dog ear'd page in a library book, and the crease is crossing the text. now, maybe i just don't get it, but that feels a little bit like heresy. in a way. if you get what i mean.

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