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Ex Libris Kirkland is my entirely self-centered way to keep track of what I
read, what I like, and what I want to remember.


 * MOONBOUND
   
   
   ROBIN SLOAN


 * HOW TO STAY MARRIED
   
   
   HARRISON SCOTT KEY


 * THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
   
   
   AUDREY NIFFENBERGER


 * HOUSE OF LEAVES
   
   
   MARK D. DANIELEWSKI

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RECENT QUOTES 📖

 * Possessing all the necessary virtues of a future Church of Christ preacher,
   including testicles and a love of my own voice, I had no choice but to give
   the sermon. I'd heard thousands of sermons in my young life, maybe too many.
   I have always felt pity for people who did this for a living. You try writing
   and delivering a new TED talk or two every week for ten or twenty or thirty
   years, based on a book nobody reads, baring your inmost thoughts for a crowd
   of friendlies who've heard it all before and strangers who'd rather be
   washing a cat.
   
   AN EXCERPT FROM HOW TO STAY MARRIED, WRITTEN BY HARRISON SCOTT KEY IN 2023

 * And the voice of the LORD thundereth marvelously from the whirlwind and said,
   "Stop googling."
   
   AN EXCERPT FROM HOW TO STAY MARRIED, WRITTEN BY HARRISON SCOTT KEY IN 2023

 * If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they
   call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard,
   dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race,
   that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that
   nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.
   
   AN EXCERPT FROM DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS, WRITTEN BY FRANCES
   TROLLOPE IN 1832


RECENT NOTES 📓

 * OK, it's a month later and I'm still stewing on this book. I'm dying for
   Erika or Trudy to get thru it so I can talk to them!
   
   AN NOTE ABOUT MOONBOUND, WRITTEN BY ROBIN SLOAN IN 2024

 * Extended dream sequences are tough to do - but I think Niffenegger uses them
   well here. It's a good solution to where you’ve got a lot of emotional
   content to deliver, without any active plot elements - the baby stuff, the
   amputation. I want to roll my eyes when book characters recount their dreams,
   but these were... fine?
   
   AN NOTE ABOUT THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, WRITTEN BY AUDREY NIFFENBERGER IN
   2003

 * Stray thoughts:
   - is this book why I picked up Rilke the first time?
   - The September 11 part was surprising. I guess at the time of writing it
   felt like you had to address it?
   - another book from book club that describes how to chop an onion. ‘If I had
   a nickel for every time… two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but its weird but
   it’s weird that it happened twice’
   
   AN NOTE ABOUT THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, WRITTEN BY AUDREY NIFFENBERGER IN
   2003

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