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Aug 28, 2026
It doesn’t quite fit with the other contemporary fiction on the shelf, but its author, the late Thomas Vinciguerra, introduced me to my husband.
Aug 21, 2026
A bookshelf is almost like a medicine cabinet, and that there are books on my shelf just waiting to cure whatever ails me
Aug 14, 2026
The place for bits that don't quite fit on the other shelves.
Aug 7, 2026
Being an animal’s person is a huge responsibility. They love us with furious intensity.
Jul 31, 2026
Is it cluttered? Yes. Is it difficult to access and in need of better organization? Probably. Is it nice to look at? Absolutely.
Jul 24, 2026
There's no formal categorization here other than me visiting them with the mentality of an intellectual magpie
Jul 17, 2026
I acquire them far too quickly and abundantly to do more than an occasional half-tidy and put things I want to read soonish in a pile
Jul 10, 2026
Shortly before the book came out I decided not to run for president, and shortly after it came out I dropped out of public life to go get therapy for PTSD.
Jul 3, 2026
It’s the cosiest, most comforting feeling, being surrounded by all these little worlds, although I expect many people would see this as mess.
Jun 26, 2026
I've never read anyone else who can make the tragic so funny, and the funny so tragic.
Jun 19, 2026
I am told on good authority that these books were absolutely beloved by children in the 1980s
Jun 12, 2026
It just goes to show you that things eventually do change for the better, and in the publishing industry, you literally never know what’s about to happen.
Jun 5, 2026
One thing is for certain; you will never look at an onion the same way after reading this book.
May 29, 2026
As a gay, Goth kid in the Nineties, his aesthetic always spoke to me.
May 22, 2026
A kind of science-fictional response to Edward Gibbon’s History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
May 15, 2026
I also wrote a concordance of all the characters, locations, and themes for the stories.
May 8, 2026
BTS finds you when you need them most.
May 1, 2026
I’ve spent the best part of my career writing what other people have asked me to write, so I guess I pine for those kinda mystical fjords sometimes.
Apr 24, 2026
The pages are smudged and stained and torn; the cover is on its last legs; it is, in short, perfect.
Apr 17, 2026
It moved me in a way I couldn’t fully name at the time.
Apr 10, 2026
You could say my bookcase is my pride and joy, and I would probably have to agree with you.
Apr 3, 2026
This shelf is a testament to the chaos of my life, and my library.
Mar 27, 2026
The tattered books that made me an avid reader as a child.
Mar 20, 2026
The shelf evolved from housing fake flowers and a retro lunchbox weed stash bookends to what it is now.
Mar 13, 2026
If there's one thing all these books have in common, it's that they are very well-highlighted.
