Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Starting the reading year off with some bangers! Also in this episode: muddy walks, the sea, thoughts on looking up how to pronounce author names & a record number of clips of me drinking red wine

Books:
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose (2017)
Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter) by Simone de Beauvoir (1958)
Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai (2005)
Theory of the Gimmick by Sianne Ngai (2020)
Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928)
Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville (1853)
The Confidence Man by Herman Melville (1857)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)
Les Mandarins (The Mandarins) by Simone de Beauvoir (1954)

People:
@ren.ee_m
@sporadicallyreading1952
@small.limebooks

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