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[AnotherSpin]

[Florestan]

[Florestan]

Konstantin Paustovsky - Romantics

[AnotherSpin]

I've only just cracked open Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid, a mere few dozen pages in, and already it's clear this is no ordinary novel. The Romanian author weaves a hypnotic tapestry of the mundane and the metaphysical: a failed writer turned schoolteacher in Bucharest, haunted by dreams of levitating solenoids and the infinite regress of memory. The prose is dense yet luminous, each sentence a small detonation of imagery and thought, as if composed in the heat of a lucid dream.

I'm determined to see it through to the end; at over six hundred pages, it demands a certain devotion. If the rest fulfills even half the promise of the beginning, I'll gladly return with a proper reckoning.

[hopefullytrusting]

Refocusing. Garland's Main-travelled roads and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

[SimonNZ]

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I hadn't heard of the formidable and hugely impressive Alice Paul before watching the 4-hour PBS documentary "The Vote" on the American suffragists, and they put her at the very center of the story. Glad to find that Oxford University Press have published this biography based on collections of oral history by those who knew and worked with her.

[LKB]

I decided to put my fancy edition of The Lord of the Rings to use a couple of weeks ago, but at a very leisurely pace. I expect Frodo & co. shall arrive at Imladris sometime in the Spring...

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Considering about buying the book.