the booklog

I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

Archive for April, 2007

This book was… well, I think the beginning was just kind of silly and scattered, the plot was a historical who-dunnit, some of the characters had moments where they might have progressed, but didn’t really. The last few paragraphs were quite clever, though. The author did a good job of tying the whole […]

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SECONDHAND WORLD - Katherine Min

“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The […]

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