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Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 64%.
as much as i loved this series in a previous life, this is just not the sort of thing i can read anymore
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz

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cannot believe my major takeaway from this book was sympathy for the founders-turned-murderers of vine
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

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Did not finish book.
look i fell for the promo for this book so bad that by the time i could get it from the library i had already listened to several amazing podcast interviews about it and so i found that i could not command the attention span to actually glean the rest of the book. i am sorry. i am filter kid
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman

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i also live in this genre of “essay-poem-annotated bibliography-intense relationship with God-wow trauma” and it’s good here actually
The Breath of God by Etienne Veto

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i love when academics title things "essays" that are in fact perfectly lovely and well-developed books. this is a book. i thought it was pretty good. calm down
Following the Footsteps of the Invisible: The Complete Works of Diadochus of Photikë by Cliff Ermatinger

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the introduction is stellar!!!!! but a part of me dies whenever a translator clearly resents the target language
The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson

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it is a refuge, occasionally, to just sit in the company of an Intellectual (TM) and think big Thoughts (TM), honestly
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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i liked the part where he reinvented the wheel by describing catholic religious life in minute detail and recommended it to protestants. that was funny