#32

I actually really liked the baseball bit at the start - if that doesn’t do anything for you it’s probably not worth another go tbh.

#33

Yeah I love the baseball chapter - seriously beautiful writing - but then I hit the second chapter and it’s … :neutral_face:

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#34

I sacked it off after 20 pages, but it felt like I was much further because they just dragged on.

#35

Degrees, persevered but shouldn’t have. I should’ve switched course.

#36

Ah, ok. Then it’s fully worth wading through - it flits between characters and time periods so you’re not stuck there for too long. It is a bit of a whiplash moment. There are a couple more sections that nearly made me tap out but there are some truly wonderful parts too.

#37

your stuff is dead good so pls keep making it and posting it here, thanks.

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#38

Maybe.

It’s also the original hardback I’ve got because I bought it when it first came out in the initial fuss. I think part of it is that I just don’t like holding massive hardback books! Maybe I should bung it on the kindle.

#39

maybe i should pick up my guitar again. i know id enjoy it i just never find time to do anything music-wise but i think itd be really good for me. dont think ive played since 2008 :scream:

#40

Hah, yeah I was lugging the paperback between home and work for months. If I’d had the hardback I’d have probably thrown my shoulder out.

#41

House of Leaves

#42

Can’t think of anything really. My family I guess. Could’ve sacked them off in my early 20s with some justification but looking back I’m glad I didn’t.

#44

Taken about a month to do 100 pages but getting drawn in more and more and I loved Lot 49 so feel I gotta keep going.

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#45

DiS
Piano lessons
Breastfeeding (nearly 16 months and still going strong)
Love
my career
oh god most things probably apart from the things I’m just glad to be shot of.

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#46

this reads like a well wank/ wonky haiku

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#47

for anyone who heard my guitar playing it certainly was

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#48

Old Blue Last
£5/£4 NUS

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#49

it’s as soon as those kinds of novels bring in the art gallery dipshit or cynical academic character i just tune out

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#50

Alanis Morrisette’s come back single was not immediately as lyrically powerful as her 90s hits.

#51

Thanks for the compliments about my music. My only worry is that my original post looks like I’m fishing for them; even so, I’m touched and grateful.

Another one is that I veeery briefly almost considered giving up my MA, thinking I was out of my depth (both in terms of course content / responsibilities and in terms of socialising with people): so glad I didn’t, definitely one of the best decisions I’ve ever made tbh from where I’m standing currently in life.

I pretty much always persevere with books these days (personal reading-wise, I mean, there were books I was set for uni that I didn’t end up finishing). The most recent one I stopped reading was because the library wanted it back and I couldn’t be arsed renewing it (it was a very interesting book though, maybe I should pick it back up).

#52

Driving.