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night film by marisha pessl

READ THIS BOOK!!! a disgraced journalist investigates a reclusive film director after the director's daughter is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in nyc under mysterious circumstances. whatever you think it's gonna be like based on that description, think again. this book blossoms and metamorphosizes into so many different things and somehow manages to ace every single one. i loved it so much that i was making myself only read ONE PAGE A DAY to make it last longer. 600 pages but feels so much shorter. and the best part? it's incredibly immersive, in part because the author utilizes a ton of multimodal aspects to make it more realistic. things like psych ward files, police reports, websites-- pic attached is an example. it's the only book i've ever read that includes such multimodal aspects in a way that feels INCREDIBLY true to life-- i regularly forgot i was reading fiction and started to look up the director's films to add to my watchlist. SO GOOD, read it now!!!

@dracula

2d ago

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sharp objects by gillian flynn

if you haven’t read it already - very not lighthearted, but super intriguing and if you like thrillers it will be hard to put down!

@marxinista

Jul 7, 2024

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COME CLOSER BY S. GRAN: DEVILISHLY GOOD

i just finished this afternoon - I really enjoyed it! it was really quick and as I read, I could feel my chest tightening up, my breath quickening, my eyes sprinting through words on the page so I didnt have to suffer any more anxiety about the ending than necessary. my only observation(?)/critique is that it’s very on the nose, it’s exactly what it says on the tin. You won’t be getting any vast explorations of the human psyche, just a devilishly good descent into a woman’s breaking mind as every aspect of control of her life is taken from her, and destroyed. 8/10!

@jayBeee

Jun 3, 2025

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we all come back to ourselves eventually

the comfort in the ebb and flow, the cyclical nature of it all

@pratibha

Mar 5, 2024

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the peace found in not encapsulating the moon

i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moon‘s ethereal essence. it’s so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. it’s literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment! (and please don’t tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldn’t sit right with me… like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated she’d rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)

@pratibha

Mar 17, 2024

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digitally bumping into each other in earnest

it's like.... kind of insane that we (not me, of course) made the internet to be any other way. imagine if the real world were algorithmic... how kooky would that be?? you'd only ever talk to people who've already gotten a thumbs up from 10,000 other people that they're cool and worthy of being heard and it would be super weird and parasocial bc everybody else would be trying to get their attention too. and maybe you'd only be able to see people like in that episode of Black Mirror w Jon Hamm where some ppl are crystal clear in color and others are blurred out and grey and inaccessible to you. well, that's what an algorithmic internet feels like!!!! and it's terrible! i like being able to post on here whenever a thought softly lands in my head and know whoever happens to refresh their page or hop onto the app when i hit SHARE will be able to see it right away... it's the beauty of your words being seen at the right time with no filters or algorithms shoving u into a corner.....and being able to see others in the same way <3

@pratibha

Feb 6, 2024