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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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Gone Girl

I'm ridiculously behind and everyone has probably already read it. But I finished Gone Girl a couple weeks ago and absolutely loved it. The suspense, dual unreliable narrators, and strange intimacy you sense between them...phenomenal. You start by thinking Nick (the husband) doesn't know his wife at all and that he has just projected all his self-loathing onto her. Then you realize he wasn't entirely wrong and you didn't know Amy either. You don't know them but you do. They don't know each other but they do they do they do. The titular theme that you can never really know someone (yet you also can) summarized in these lines from the first page: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have ... What have we done to each other? What will we do? *funny note 1: this was my 3rd attempt at reading Gone Girl over the past 4 years. every time i tried to read it i could never get to Amy's part because i just haaaaatedddd Nick so much i couldn't bear to be in his head any longer. *funny note 2: my boyfriend was extra cautious around me and even a little anxious while i was reading LMAO *sidenote: the movie was fine. i thought the pacing was a little fast, but understandable. what i didn't like was you didn't see any of Nick's internal monologue, so he just seems like a regular bum kind of a dick. when really he's like a huge piece of shit.

@katialisa

Jan 26, 2024

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WTF DID I JUST READ ?

I finished my third book for this year. It was “The silent patient”. When i tell you i screamed “ WHAT THE FUCK “ once i read the plot at the END! i still have many unanswered questions because it felt incomplete but the manipulation was REAL !

@la9atate

Mar 7, 2025

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rice porridge, congee, arroz caldo

any sort or rice porridge- whether plain congee which is just rice cooked in water or arroz caldo, rice porridge with chicken (so kinda like a cross between porridge and chicken soup)

@nananina

Dec 1, 2024

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using pinterest as a media diary

i am not new to pinterest but i only ever use it to browse through and save "inspo" for arts, design, aesthetics, etc. and i have never used it to post my own photos, that is until a few days ago. i still save photos/art for inspo but i like how the interface makes your photos look more fluid. instagram's square design looks too clinical, and limits the dimensions of photos and videos you could upload, unlike on pinterest where you could have combinations of media in varying sizes, and they fit in a puzzle kind of way, the feed looks much more relaxed and personalized.

@nananina

Nov 23, 2024

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Food preservation

i started making my own kimchi because my spice tolerance is not very high but i really like kimchi, so i make it on my own to adjust to my taste. i have done other fermented/preserved food as well (pickles, radishes, bean sprouts, carrots, marinated eggs). as someone who likes to cook but also gets regular bouts of laziness, these prepared foods have been a lifesaver and moneysaver. i usually pair it with rice, which if you have a rice cooker isn't really much of a bother to do, or i simply snack on them. and since they are fermented or preserved most of these items are even better the longer they sit, so i can make a big batch on my energetic days and not worry about them going bad so soon. pictured here: my new batch of kimchi, will probably wait a few days or a week before i start eating, but good to know i have something for the coming weeks

@nananina

Nov 30, 2024