David Waldstreicher - The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).

Started this last night, really enjoying it. The project Waldstreicher pursues here -- that of deeply contextualizing Wheatley's life and writings and understanding her as actively engaged with the 18th-century Atlantic world(s) -- feels like a minor revelation already, and I'm not that far in! More to come.

(I am trying something new with sharing passages and thoughts on my reading: a "root" post for the book/volume, commentary and shared passages will be added as replies. So additional commentary will be added to this post as a series of replies. For those who are uninterested, this may make it easier to mute a single conversation and unclutter your timeline.)

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'Why ... come to ask for me ... and then say nothing? ... What is all this?' Raskolnikov's voice cracked, and his words seemed unwilling to emerge clearly.

This time the man raised his head and looked at him with sombre ominous eyes.

'Murderer!' he said suddenly, in a low but clear and distinct voice.

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'But why do you ... what ... who is a murderer?' muttered Raskolnikov hardly audibly.

'You are,' pronounced the stranger still more distinctly and impressively, with a smile of triumphant hatred, and again he looked straight at Raskolnikov's pale face and his staring eyes.

- Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter VI (trans. Jessie Coulson)

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#NowReading *Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen* by #DexterPalmer and am just loving everything about it. Started it a day or two ago and might sail through it this weekend despite a long list of to-dos, semester prep, and finishing touches on a presentation for Monday. Can't put it down!

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The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World - David Robson

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Going through my Goodreads ‘Read’ list and wtf are these books? I rated these books 4-5 stars? I’ve literally never heard of them in my life. I have no recollection of reading them. And I wrote reviews? The reviews aren’t jogging my memory at all.

I’m literally reading a book right now (1/3 of the way done) that I apparently read 7 years ago and rated 5 stars. I didn’t know this until I went to add it to my Goodreads and saw it was already added. I feel shaken to the core 😭 #NowReading

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1st book of the year + my faithful reading companion.
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Found in Budapest: „Fortepan Masters”, a monumental selection from the Fortepan Archive (https://fortepan.hu/en/), available in Hungarian and English editions. (If you happen to be in the city, bookstores may still have copies of the original 2021 edition.)

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Ich habe eben einen Roman nach dem Leben von Bix Beiderbecke begonnen und die erste Seite hat mich schon. #NowReading
Dorothy Baker: Ich mag mich irren, aber ich finde dich fabelhaft

#nowReading Alex Bocchetto's Network 23/ Sprawlscape bundle -- I have the print version as a Kickstarter reward.

Some complicated feelings about it. I'm not sure the card-based TTRPG rules system is clicking with me & I'm not convinced that Sprawlscape works as a psychogeographic guide. But ...

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#NowReading Night Shift by Stephen King.

I just finished the 47 hour extended audiobook for The Stand!

Since we watched Midnight Mass throughout last week (2 episodes/day), my boyfriend let me know that it was loosely based on Salem's Lot & that we had the short story collection ( Jerusalem's Lot ) that inspired it.