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I'm reading The Toilers of the Sea for the first time and in true Victor Hugo fashion, the story doesn't start until page 60 because he spends the pages up to that describing the landscape and society of Guernsey, where the book takes place

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I also found some of my very favorite books this year. We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen and A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth were two very long but captivating immersive epics; Lucky by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes and Nixonland Rick Perlstein were both entertaining and educational;

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I'm reading The Toilers of the Sea for the first time and in true Victor Hugo fashion, the story doesn't start until page 60 because he spends the pages up to that describing the landscape and society of Guernsey, where the book takes place

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I'm reading The Toilers of the Sea for the first time and in true Victor Hugo fashion, the story doesn't start until page 60 because he spends the pages up to that describing the landscape and society of Guernsey, where the book takes place

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In which we once again examine the injustice of equal state representation in the senate, this time from the words of James Madison, principle author of the Constitution. (Image is from Michael J. Klarman’s ‘The Framers’ Coup’) https://t.co/b78sRut42c

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Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life will stick with me for years to come, and my reread of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski was perfectly chilling. This has, without a doubt, been my best year of reading to date, and I'm so excited to carry the pattern on next year.

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I also found some of my very favorite books this year. We the Drowned by Carsten Jensen and A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth were two very long but captivating immersive epics; Lucky by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes and Nixonland Rick Perlstein were both entertaining and educational;

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Last year I endeavored to (and succeeded) read the entirety of the Wheel of Time series - the full 14 books plus the prequel. Today I start my 2023 project of reading through Bibek Debroy's full translation of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. https://t.co/wtdxn2Lf9t

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I read To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman back to back within 3 days and my god, Harper Lee's original work is such a masterpiece of literature and the sequel released 55 years later is one of the worst books I've read all year.

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Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life will stick with me for years to come, and my reread of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski was perfectly chilling. This has, without a doubt, been my best year of reading to date, and I'm so excited to carry the pattern on next year.