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Instead of garbage, read more fiction. https://substack.com/@literaturesupporter?utm_source=user-menu http://Historyofliterature.com #anthonypowelltogether #rachelcusktogether #InfiniteJestTogether #ProustTogether #MannTogether +Arsenal

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 5d

week 2 of #rachelcusktogether starts tomorrow!

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2h

Familial corpses within encased glass, moving coffins around in the dark, scrabbling out of a crypt???
I had to keep reading.
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3h

Highly recommend this classic historical novel if you're interested in the Battle of Gettysburg and the beliefs behind the Civil War.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Hibou le Literature Supporter's review of The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)

4/5: Beautifully rendered, emotional, strategic, just enough military action and dreams / ideology. Shaara brings to life the generals and colonels in charge on both sides, their doubts and beliefs, h...

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3h

is he tragic or comic? certainly, not entirely someone you can trust.

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3h

correct, they don't

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3h

love the way his hairy back becomes something that she can focus on, and direct her thoughts towards.
#rachelcusktogether

@karinj.bsky.social @karinj.bsky.social · 1d

#Rachelcusktogether 'He didn't once glance back at me, for people are at their least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.' Her piercing awareness. Also great how she turns herself into his next anecdote, narrated by whom?

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3h

reminds me that there are parts of us that need airing out!
#rachelcusktogether

kingbinny.bsky.social @kingbinny.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve thought about “airing the shaded crevices of his being” a lot over the past few days. There are some special, almost sacred, experiences that seem to fall into this space … an electric sunset, an unexpected meeting of gaze, a portentous silence freighted with meaning. This is powerful to me.

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Thomas Liam @thomasliam300.bsky.social · 11h

I love this. She takes this seemingly obvious, heavy-handed metaphor and makes it brilliant, ironic. Flips it on Ryan - his symbol of change becomes a symbol of Sisyphian stagnation.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3h

Day 12, Oct 12, Sun - p72 “The boat drifted to a halt in the lapping water…” to p79 “…trying to find a foothold.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 15h

who?

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 15h

i've gotten so much better at listening in my 50s, i have to say. though sometimes, I cannot stand certain pontificating or aggressive voices.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 15h

yeah, this definition only works if you haven't outlived your family. for me, home is where I precisely can't control how I feel.
#rachelcusktogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

Day 11, Oct 11, Sat - p65 “He supposed, he said, now that the thought about it…” to p72 “…making a brushing gesture with his hand.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

let's just jump in!

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

I loved that juxtaposition so much, and the movement up the stairs away from the cafe.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

hahaha. i need you guys!

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of love how we get a slightly negative description of the plane neighbor's body almost out of nowhere. It reminds me of how often I read female bodily descriptions out of nowhere in novels by men.
#RachelCuskTogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

maybe we do satantango, then the 2 Losts?

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Piaze @piaze.bsky.social · 2d

Energy - and (self) control? Is listening a way of manipulating? Wondering about this as I read these scenes where men seem to empty themselves. Fascinating how we women can do this.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

hahaha. all of human comedy?

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

shall we make satantango, his debut novel(!), our next slow-read, after #rachelcusktogether ?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Prize for Literature

He was recognised “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

yes, there's something to that child-like impulse that many of us move beyond as adults, but we still retain some remnant.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

Day 10, Oct 10, Fri - START CH4 p58 “My neighbour from the plane was a good foot shorter…” to p65 “…other than that her work was everything to her.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

The importance of a place, a room of one's own.
#rachelcusktogether

christina500 @christina500.bsky.social · 3d

"And in fact it was obvious, from certain features in her apartment, that she regarded writing as a profession worthy of the greatest trust & respect.
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The room itself was quite small & dark. Yet there was nothing you really needed that wasn't there."

Ch.3 #RachelCuskTogether #Outline Exactly.

Matisse, The Silence Living in Houses 1947

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

i love this quickest of anecdotes.

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