Books
Reading log
Finished, abandoned, and returned to — with the lines I underlined twice.
On the desk now
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel — Chee. One essay per week.
- Island — Singapore short fiction reissue from the 1970s.
- The Rings of Saturn — Sebald. Permission to digress.
Finished — full notes
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28 July 2026
Reading The Gift again
Lewis Hyde — underlined the same passage as ten years ago. Apparently I learn slowly on purpose.
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8 June 2026
Invisible Cities on the bus to Malacca
Calvino read aloud on a long bus — prose meant for voices, not screens.
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Abandoned without guilt
A productivity manual died on page forty. A trauma memoir felt performative. DNF teaches taste.
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