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they/them. definitely not planning on hosting a rival bookwyrm instance. never read a book before.

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Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace (Modern Library Classics) (2002, Modern Library)

"War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three …

Guess I didn't need to worry about losing steam before I made it to the War. Turns out I was already at the battle I remembered best.

Pleasantly surprised that while I had remembered Rostov's confusion in battle I had not remembered "Who are they? What are they running for? Can it be to me? Can they be running to me? And what for? To kill me? Me, whom every one's so fond of?"

@mouse not yet. I'm probably not going to do any dev stuff until tomorrow or Monday (I think tonight I'm going to finish with importing reviews instead), but I'll check then. Also going to setup an actual development instance so I'll have two servers I can directly test between

@mouse 2-way. my mastodon account can see posts from both so I think it must be that bookwyrm refuses to talk to it because it thinks it's misconfigured or something. DMs work though and I have no idea why they would be different.

Also, at first I thought DMs from mastodon to bookwyrm didn't work but it turns out that's only if you forget to federate them. So much to lern

Georges Perec: An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (2009, Wakefield Press)

One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": …

January 10th, 2021: Exhaustion

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Perhaps, it is time for a break. It is not that I didn't enjoy this reading as much as I felt like I didn't get anything new out of it. So either the book is exhausted or I am (and it's probably the latter)