Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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0:00 - happy new year bb
2:07 - HONORABLE MENTIONS
B as in Beirut by Iman Humaydan Younnes; All Fours by Miranda July; Butcher's Crossing by John Williams; James by Percival Everett; Brat by Gabriel Smith
4:56 - BOOKS 10 - 5
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata; Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; If Only by Vigdis Hjorth; The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft; Binstead's Safari by Rachell Ingalls
17:59 - BOOKS 5 - 1
The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood; Run River by Joan Didion; Rhine Journey by Ann Schlee; Rejections by Tony Tulathimutte, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
26:12 - FINAL THOUGHTS

MISC BOOKS MENTIONED:
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth

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