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Pinned
I've had my run-in with noisy-thumping-past-midnight neighbors, screaming matches (including their teenage son) and having a door slammed on my face, and now we act like we never did any of that and say hello and hold doors for each other and wish each other happy holidays.
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I've had my run-in with noisy-thumping-past-midnight neighbors, screaming matches (including their teenage son) and having a door slammed on my face, and now we act like we never did any of that and say hello and hold doors for each other and wish each other happy holidays.
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
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Day 45
"...a city was a decipherable interface, a sort of lexicon of human behaviour that did half the work of decoding the mystery of self, so that you could effectively communicate through a kind of shorthand."
Day 45
"...a city was a decipherable interface, a sort of lexicon of human behaviour that did half the work of decoding the mystery of self, so that you could effectively communicate through a kind of shorthand."
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Day 45
"...a city was a decipherable interface, a sort of lexicon of human behaviour that did half the work of decoding the mystery of self, so that you could effectively communicate through a kind of shorthand."
Day 45
"...a city was a decipherable interface, a sort of lexicon of human behaviour that did half the work of decoding the mystery of self, so that you could effectively communicate through a kind of shorthand."
one of the appeals of traveling is you can emphasize different parts of yourself to strangers.
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
'he seemed somewho to have been filled in. In those days he was a sketch, an outline'
He seems little changed as has the place. 'One benefit of going away...was that it made it easier to change.' In change is a fear of the loss of self.
'he seemed somewho to have been filled in. In those days he was a sketch, an outline'
He seems little changed as has the place. 'One benefit of going away...was that it made it easier to change.' In change is a fear of the loss of self.
November 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
one of the appeals of traveling is you can emphasize different parts of yourself to strangers.
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
if you're into English literature, literary history, and good merrie company...
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2026: London, Oxford, and Bath with Jacke Wilson
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November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
if you're into English literature, literary history, and good merrie company...
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Day 50, Nov 19, Wed - p45 “‘Who is it, John?’” to p52 “What he’d seen…a foreign country.”
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Day 50, Nov 19, Wed - p45 “‘Who is it, John?’” to p52 “What he’d seen…a foreign country.”
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
week 8 of #rachelcusktogether starts tmw!
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
week 8 of #rachelcusktogether starts tmw!
Day 49, Nov 18, Tues - p37 “The builder said I was trying to make a silk purse…” to p44 “Finally, after a long time…opened the door.”
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Day 49, Nov 18, Tues - p37 “The builder said I was trying to make a silk purse…” to p44 “Finally, after a long time…opened the door.”
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
Day 48, Nov 17, Mon - p32 “I remembered him telling me once…” to p36 (END OF CHAPTER)
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#rachelcusktogether
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Day 48, Nov 17, Mon - p32 “I remembered him telling me once…” to p36 (END OF CHAPTER)
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#rachelcusktogether
After hating his novel BRIEFLY GORGEOUS, I was pleasantly surprised to fall in love with his first collection of poetry.
#oceanvuong
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#oceanvuong
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Hibou le Literature Supporter's review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds
4/5: "Because in my hurry to make her real, make her here, I will forget to write a bit of light into the room." from Daily Bread "There was a door & then a door surrounded by a forest..." from To ...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
After hating his novel BRIEFLY GORGEOUS, I was pleasantly surprised to fall in love with his first collection of poetry.
#oceanvuong
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#oceanvuong
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Rachel Cusk feels like a powerful friend. My short review of Outline.
#rachelcusktogether
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#rachelcusktogether
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Hibou le Literature Supporter's review of Outline
5/5: This is my 2nd time reading Outline. Its structure diverges from the novels I typically champion, basically sketches of the mostly unlikeable near-strangers in the narrator's life. But it is a pa...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Rachel Cusk feels like a powerful friend. My short review of Outline.
#rachelcusktogether
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#rachelcusktogether
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Day 47, Nov 16, Sun - p25 “They had moved back to London…” to p32 “‘History repeating itself…wouldn’t you?’”
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#rachelcusktogether
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Day 47, Nov 16, Sun - p25 “They had moved back to London…” to p32 “‘History repeating itself…wouldn’t you?’”
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#rachelcusktogether
Day 46, Nov 15, Sat - SHORT DAY p22 “At first the dog had made him nervous…” to p25 “…just exercise the immune system.”
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November 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Day 46, Nov 15, Sat - SHORT DAY p22 “At first the dog had made him nervous…” to p25 “…just exercise the immune system.”
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#rachelcusktogether
We have yet another dog story starting tomorrow!
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#Rachelcusktogether
November 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We have yet another dog story starting tomorrow!
#Rachelcusktogether
#Rachelcusktogether
Day 45, Nov 14, Fri - p15 “A growing crowd of parents and uniformed children…” to p22 “He was planning…writhing out to the park.”
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#rachelcusktogether
November 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Day 45, Nov 14, Fri - p15 “A growing crowd of parents and uniformed children…” to p22 “He was planning…writhing out to the park.”
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
That child's expression of "supreme martyrdom" reminding the narrator of her ex-lover's melodramatic demeanor.
Smart, knowing kids are abundant in fiction but rarely 'martyrs'.
#rachelcusktogether
Smart, knowing kids are abundant in fiction but rarely 'martyrs'.
#rachelcusktogether
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
That child's expression of "supreme martyrdom" reminding the narrator of her ex-lover's melodramatic demeanor.
Smart, knowing kids are abundant in fiction but rarely 'martyrs'.
#rachelcusktogether
Smart, knowing kids are abundant in fiction but rarely 'martyrs'.
#rachelcusktogether
Day 44, Nov 13, Thur - p10 “Gerard was instantly recognizable…” to p15 “He had kept it all…was still there.”
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#rachelcusktogether
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Day 44, Nov 13, Thur - p10 “Gerard was instantly recognizable…” to p15 “He had kept it all…was still there.”
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
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"…and it may have become the case that the faux-human was growing more substantial and more relational than the original, that there was more tenderness to be had from a machine than from one's fellow man."
She's prophesying AI psychosis, positively eerie.
#RachelCuskTogether
She's prophesying AI psychosis, positively eerie.
#RachelCuskTogether
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"…and it may have become the case that the faux-human was growing more substantial and more relational than the original, that there was more tenderness to be had from a machine than from one's fellow man."
She's prophesying AI psychosis, positively eerie.
#RachelCuskTogether
She's prophesying AI psychosis, positively eerie.
#RachelCuskTogether
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"What I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again."
–Roland Barthes #botd
#books #literature #writing #reading
–Roland Barthes #botd
#books #literature #writing #reading
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The elegance of Cusk's thoughts about almost anything: "Many astrologers had had to live, in order words, for this one example to have been created." (3, Transit)
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#rachelcusktogether
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The elegance of Cusk's thoughts about almost anything: "Many astrologers had had to live, in order words, for this one example to have been created." (3, Transit)
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
Day 43, Nov 13, Wed - p1 “An astrologer emailed me…” to p9 (END OF CHAPTER)
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Day 43, Nov 13, Wed - p1 “An astrologer emailed me…” to p9 (END OF CHAPTER)
#rachelcusktogether
#rachelcusktogether
tmw we start TRANSIT!
week 7 of #rachelcusktogether
week 7 of #rachelcusktogether
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
tmw we start TRANSIT!
week 7 of #rachelcusktogether
week 7 of #rachelcusktogether
Day 42, Nov 11, Tues - DAY OFF #3
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#rachelcusktogether
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Day 42, Nov 11, Tues - DAY OFF #3
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#rachelcusktogether
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Silence is space for reflecting, digesting and listening - or just space to be. Carl Rogers, humanist psychologist, placed great value in silence. An example that always comes to my mind is how on a car journey with someone you're comfortable with, you don't need to talk the whole time.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Silence is space for reflecting, digesting and listening - or just space to be. Carl Rogers, humanist psychologist, placed great value in silence. An example that always comes to my mind is how on a car journey with someone you're comfortable with, you don't need to talk the whole time.
what a great idea! I just devoured Stoner and Butcher's Crossing earlier this year. He is a gem of a writer.
If we do ancient, I vote for Augustus by John Williams.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
what a great idea! I just devoured Stoner and Butcher's Crossing earlier this year. He is a gem of a writer.