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The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Hi y’all,
It’s ~~short book summer1~~ ~~wedding season~~2 ~~finally fall~~ literally 2025 and 6 months after I actually wrote this blog post here at Book Notes! I’m publishing it now in lieu of writing about the other books I read in 2024....
The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova
Hi y’all,
Happy (late) Halloween!
I wrote a review of Camilla Grudova’s latest short story collection, The Coiled Serpent, for The Southwest Review. It name checks the Lex Fridman Podcast, r/depressionmeals, GoodReads, and my fiancé, so...
the reading olympics
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HAPPY OLYMPICS!!!!!!!
It’s the most wonderful time of every two years! Do you cry during Opening Ceremonies? I don’t, but I do get a little misty eyed.
All those handsome young, and young-ish, people from all around the world...
The Employees by Olga Ravn
Hi y’all,
It’s short book summer here at Book Notes! We’re reading books that are 150 pages and under. You can read these books in a single afternoon, sitting in McCarren Park with your beautiful girlfriend; or in the backyard of an overpr...
Book Report #09
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When I was writing regularly on Substack a year or so ago, I had a weekly-ish email I called the “Book Report.” It basically kept me in the habit of writing and was a nice place to include a bunch of silly observations about book...
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