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A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

Chapter 4 of 667%

Each drink becomes a way of seeing an era, not just describing it.

Started May 1Has reflections

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

Part 360%

Memory as architecture, time as ruin.

Started Dec 28Has reflections

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The Waves

Virginia Woolf

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Pedro Páramo

Juan Rulfo

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Middlemarch

George Eliot

Book III35%

Will return when life slows down.

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

The past is never past. It lives in the body.

Finished Dec 10Has reflections

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Dignity as self-erasure.

Finished Nov 22Has reflections

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