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What I remember from the last 1,000 books I read (opens the original)
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I’m currently listening to the audiobook of Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books by Hwang Bo-Reum (translated by Shanna Tan), and spending those listening hours reflecting on my time as a rather public reader. I chose this book to soon log as my 1,000th book on my “Read” shelf.It’s a symbolic gesture of sorts, mostly because that number isn’t close to accurate. I only started dedicatedly logging in 2019, already 4 years removed from those years in college I spent hiding away from peo
A Nagging But Helpful Thought I Keep Having (opens the original)
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I keep having this thought and asking myself if it’s real or not. And I’m not sure what your brain is like, if that’s something you deal with routinely or ever, but for me, it’s an hourly occurrence. My thoughts, if they’re even mine, don’t always feel like mine – they don’t feel like I made them.Maybe I need to take specific notes about this thought, jot down the date, time, and location, but I think I know it. I have this thought when I’m reading. When I’m out for a walk or a run. Sitting in a
They Prayed for Rain (opens the original)
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Thanks for reading and supporting. This short story was written for my prose class in my MFA. I am currently about halfway through the program and will have a lot more of grad school assignments to share with y’all in the coming months. Before we get started, and maybe this is a spoiler, but I want to share what main criticisms this piece got from the other students:I am not one that loves plot. I think it’s something of a holdover from both liking very meandering-styled fiction but also a quirk
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