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PiranesiSusanna Clarke
PiranesiSusanna Clarke

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke · 2020

Strange and gentle, and it never once explains itself. I finished it and immediately missed the house.

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Thinking in SystemsDonella Meadows
Thinking in SystemsDonella Meadows

Thinking in Systems

Donella Meadows · 2008

Should be handed to anyone who builds anything. The chapter on leverage points rearranged how I look at my own work.

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The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of DarknessUrsula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969

Read it in two nights. The crossing of the ice is the best thing I have read about being cold, and about being known.

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Small Things Like TheseClaire Keegan
Small Things Like TheseClaire Keegan

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan · 2021

Perfect. Not a wasted line in it, and I have thought about the coal shed roughly once a week since.

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BluetsMaggie Nelson
BluetsMaggie Nelson

Bluets

Maggie Nelson · 2009

Blue as a way of surviving something. Two hundred and forty numbered fragments and not one of them filler.

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