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James Joyce: Ulysses (Paperback, 2019, AmazonClassics) 5 stars

Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal …

i've avoided Ulysses because it seemed like a book people read just to say they had read it and i was bored with modernist stream of consciousness things. but after a steady diet of linear storytelling in the past year, maybe i'm ready to float through the layered sentences and rabbit hole references. i'm finally part of a reading group (my first, which i am failing at spectacularly). it may take me all year so i'll have to adjust my reading goal again