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The crushing resignation and absolute apathy when Word eats things

#after the stages of bargaining and grief - otherwise known as frantically googling “How to recover unsaved documents’ and emotional agony #personal

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Yoshinori Mizutani - Pájaros en el alambre. Cielo. 2015

#yoshinori mizutani #art #black and white

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

#the abandoners: on mothers and monsters #begoña gómez urzaiz

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End of year book asks: 3, 9, 14, 25

3). What were your top five books of the year?

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home (Hala Alyan), Barcelona (Mary Costello), Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World (Anne Enright), and maybe Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives (Lucy Mangan) and my reread of The Lost Properties of Love (Sophie Ratcliffe; retitled Loss: A Love Story, in the US). Also been continuing to enjoy Anne Fadiman, and looking forward to her new release in February.

9). Did you get into any new genres?

Sort of! I read two dozen classics this year, and I hadn’t really tackled 1700/1800s literature since high-school.

14). What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

I’d really like to reread a Penelope Fitzgerald novel before the year ends. I try to revisit at least one of hers every year.

25). What reading goals do you have for next year?

Mm. More rereading—that’s fallen by the wayside the past couple of years and I miss it. I’d like to read more translated work, too, which I’ve been saying for a few years but haven’t been very intentional about. I’d also like it to be the year I finally dig into In This House of Brede (Rumer Godden) and The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni). Mostly, if 2026 could be the year I am entirely enamored of more novels (stay up until dawn, can’t stop reading, make social commitments begrudgingly), that would make me very, very happy.

#ask game #my answers #thank you!

End of year book asks: 1, 16, 17

1). How many books did you read this year?

Currently reading my 113th!

16). What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

By default, I suppose that would be David Szalay’s Flesh, which won this year’s Booker Prize. The entire Booker baker dozen was particularly chaotic this year, and mainly over-hyped, in my opinion. I also finally made it all the way through Candide, and was reminded of all the reasons why I never finished it in high-school (would I have enjoyed it more with contemporary philosophical context? Probably).

17). Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Bought Mary Costello’s collection Barcelona on a last-minute walking-to-the-register whim and it was incredible. Patricia Hampl’s I Could Tell You Stories was a similarly impulsive purchase with lastingly gratifying results.

#ask game #my answers #thank you!

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#flowers #art

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snoopy image of the day

#snoopy

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your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for a graduate degree

#every time I consider applying for a Ph.D I remind myself that this is how I felt about getting my Master’s

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#flowers #blue

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end-of-year book ask

How many books did you read this year?

Did you reread anything? What?

What were your top five books of the year?

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

What genre did you read the most of?

Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to?

What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate?

Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones?

Did you get into any new genres?

What was your favorite new release of the year?

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

Any books that disappointed you?

What were your least favorite books of the year?

What books do you want to finish before the year is over?

Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?

Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

How many books did you buy?

Did you use your library?

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama?

What’s the longest book you read?

What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book?

Did you DNF anything? Why?

What reading goals do you have for next year?

#ask game