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Thomas Cleary: Teachings of Zen (Hardcover, 2000, Barnes & Noble Books) No rating

This is one of a dozen or so old books my aunt gave me a few months ago, so I'm finally looking into this one because it's a topic I've been interested in exploring for a while. I've read the first 20 pages, it's really interesting so far. I'm writing in the book, which is something I've been conflicted on doing but I think for this, where i have so many thoughts and questions, anecdotes to write, it makes sense. Journaling in the book, it honestly feels like I'm having a conversation with the book in the sense that I write my thoughts, and then I read on? Might sound crazy, but it's a really interesting approach to reading this specific book. The contents of the book itself use ways of thinking that are a bit unique for me to wrap my head around, so it's something of a journey …

Isabel Waidner: Corey Fah Does Social Mobility (2024, Graywolf Press) 4 stars

Fantastic and unique in every way

5 stars

I loved it. There's a lot to love about it. Of course, the theme about social mobility as the title says. The plot was really off-the-walls in a lot of ways and everything the book was building up came together beautifully in the final 20 or so pages. Loved it!!!! I thought the prose, as well as how the story and character interactions is explained and told was done really uniquely here. It bends traditional writing styles, sentences tend to be more blunt and streamlined, but still rich with meaning. Will I write like Corey Fah's style? Maybe not, but I have learned that I have a craving for books with unique writing styles. This book is also queer, and it's written by a queer author, and I had no idea about that going in but it was pretty swag to discover :^) and it definitely gave the book extra …

J. Lyndon Shanley, John Updike, Henry David Thoreau: Walden (2016, Princeton University Press) 4 stars

Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a …

I returned it to the library after 2 months of renewing it. I was listening to it through an audiobook for my family's car to listen to while driving by myself. But motivating myself to listen to it was difficult, and the book was honestly kind of boring in a lot of places. Maybe I will have to read it visually sometime. But I ended up only finishing 4 of the 10 CDs my audiobook copy came with.

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (EBook, 2014, Standard Ebooks) 4 stars

Originally published serially as a three-part story, Heart of Darkness is a short but thematically …

Read it for English class, but it's good!

4 stars

Finished reading it for my English class a few weeks ago. I always like the books we've read in high school, but this book was nearly a different story. It was honestly a very difficult and confusing read. But reading summaries alongside the book, as well as making notes for assignments helped me understand the book, and combined with the way the book resolves, I kinda really like it? I don't think I'll reread it again, but I can see why it's such a classic.