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40% complete! christa has read 16 of 40 books.
Silent Cities: San Francisco chronicles the impact of cemeteries on American cities through the gold-rush development of San Francisco: the …
Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep …
Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life …
I'm about 75 pages from the end and this book just went from being an uncomfortable complicated artifact of grieving someone close to feeling like an aggrieved accounting of an ex to a friend after a breakup. I don't like the turn, and now I get more what the backlash was. I'm still holding off reading the reviews, though.
Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life …
I changed my mind. this book may be my worst nightmare.
Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life …
Content warning suicide mention
I started reading this last night and it's so beautiful and so devastating—the first handful of pages describe the day Molly, the author's wife, killed herself, from the experience of the author. It's so loving and sad and written at least so far without anger or guilt. I can't imagine writing or publishing it, and it's also healing in a way to read someone just loving someone else deeply, and understanding that their partner's pain can still exist independent of them and that love. I feel weird about reading this book so far, feel unsettled about where it is going to go. For now, I am glad I found it.
(NYT review here: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/books/review/blake-butler-molly.html)
Blake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep …
@bibliotechy that's it! at some point in this introduction the author referred to the book as an essay and I think I audibly groaned on the bus
You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Matthew Beaumont argues that …
I started reading this yesterday and I'm a little afraid it's going to be like every Verso book for me: interesting in theory, but something I abandon 50 pages in in practice
