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Certain books are connected to the physical circumstances of reading them.
Due to the length of the book and the temperature of the apartment, I was soon fully amphibious.
The sliding glass door separating tub/shower from toilet/sink had shattered.
Every surface of the bathroom glittered with treacherous shards.
The answer: kitchen tongs, paper towels, a spirit of determination, etc.
I wish you a holiday season of good books absorbed in structurally sound conditions.
And I was zero percent incorrect.
All thatandcrime in this indoorsy gem!
Rosamund Stacey is writing her thesis on Elizabethan sonnets when she gets pregnant after having sex exactly one time.
(Rough luck.)
The books unsexy title obscures its sexy (to me!)
This, on the other hand, is a collection of Ferrantes random thoughts on random topics.
Theyre not essays; more like verbal sneezes.
(Ferrante calls them brief trickles of ink.)
In 2017The Guardianasked her to write a weekly column.
This book is the columns.
Prompts include plants, art, addiction, odious women, lies, and movies.
Dont start with this if you havent read other Ferrante.
That would be like, I dunno, watchingBoxcar BerthabeforeGoodfellas.
Give yourself theCREEPSwith a livelyautopsyof disgust?
Get your mind bent on Andrea Long ChusargumentthatEVERYONE IS, IN FACT, FEMALE and everyone hates it?
Dive into arollicking cancer novel?
(Now youve read everything!)
Skewer yourself like aKEBABon the sharp stick of Margaret Atwoods intellect inan interview I did with her?
Find nice copies of your top-three books and give them to a loved one for the holidays?
Its aDIY BOX SET!
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Pair the waning hours of daylight with a briefpoemof unmatched Russian gloom?
