Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A few days in Berlin, a somewhat melancholy birthday and some good books

Books I read:
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein (2021)
Figure It Out by Wayne Koestenbaum (2020) (audiobook read by Pete Cross)
Limbo by Dan Fox (2018)

Other books mentioned:
Down Below by Leonora Carrington (1988)
Fat City by Leonard Gardner (1969)
The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens (2017)
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy (1970) (trans. George Szirtes)
Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic (2021)
Villette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)

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