Books I like




An Absolutely Remarkable Thing ~ Hank Green

Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.



My Year of Rest and Relaxation ~ Ottessa Moshfegh

I even made myself a cup of chamomile tea, the nauseating sweet smell wafting up from my chipped coffee cup like a hot diaper. This was supposed to be relaxing?



White Teeth ~ Zadie Smith

Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.



The Corrections ~ Jonathan Franzen

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.



White Noise ~ Don DeLillo

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.



The Trial ~ Franz Kafka

you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.



What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories by Raymond Carver

To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone