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Book nerd, tv nerd, general embarrassment to humanity. Also a tennis fan. Elder millennial
The scene with the shoe is my favorite part of the book but I also can’t help but think that the person Ellen imagines Newland to be is way better than the Newland we see 🏹 #monthofinnocence
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The scene with the shoe is my favorite part of the book but I also can’t help but think that the person Ellen imagines Newland to be is way better than the Newland we see 🏹 #monthofinnocence
Caught up on yesterday’s Age of Innocence reading and I wonder, does Newland ever see a play/opera/whatever he hasn’t already seen several times? I guess it’s another example of the constricted nature of NY society. 🏹
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Caught up on yesterday’s Age of Innocence reading and I wonder, does Newland ever see a play/opera/whatever he hasn’t already seen several times? I guess it’s another example of the constricted nature of NY society. 🏹
Semi-outsider Ellen is the one who clocks that the up side of all the weird rules of New York society is that they can make you "feel cared for and safe" and that she wants that sense of safety, while Newland, born to the rules, is the one chafing at them a bit. 🏹
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Semi-outsider Ellen is the one who clocks that the up side of all the weird rules of New York society is that they can make you "feel cared for and safe" and that she wants that sense of safety, while Newland, born to the rules, is the one chafing at them a bit. 🏹
Newland has these shockingly feminist thoughts - women should be as free as men are, there's no honest reason women shouldn't be allowed to have sexual experiences before marriage - but also is aware that he says this because he knows no nice women would exercise those freedoms. 🏹
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Newland has these shockingly feminist thoughts - women should be as free as men are, there's no honest reason women shouldn't be allowed to have sexual experiences before marriage - but also is aware that he says this because he knows no nice women would exercise those freedoms. 🏹
I thought that during this reread of Age of Innocence I'd try to pay attention to Larry Lefferts since I saw a play adaptation last spring where a reviewer was annoyed that this character was played as if gay. So far he is introduced as an authority on shoes so I don't get the critic's upset. 🏹
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I thought that during this reread of Age of Innocence I'd try to pay attention to Larry Lefferts since I saw a play adaptation last spring where a reviewer was annoyed that this character was played as if gay. So far he is introduced as an authority on shoes so I don't get the critic's upset. 🏹
I really enjoy how funny The Age of Innocence is when pointing out the million hypocricies. I particularly liked Newland "was glad that his future wife should not be restrained by false prudery from being kind (in private) to her unhappy cousin" but not in public, egads! 🏹 #InnocenceReads
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I really enjoy how funny The Age of Innocence is when pointing out the million hypocricies. I particularly liked Newland "was glad that his future wife should not be restrained by false prudery from being kind (in private) to her unhappy cousin" but not in public, egads! 🏹 #InnocenceReads
This month I'm trying to take part in a group read of Age of Innocence, so if anyone is confused by any posts I make with a 🏹 that's what's going on! I really liked Edith Wharton, so I'm excited about this :-)
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This month I'm trying to take part in a group read of Age of Innocence, so if anyone is confused by any posts I make with a 🏹 that's what's going on! I really liked Edith Wharton, so I'm excited about this :-)
Good morning! After the first listen, my favorite song on the new Taylor Swift album is Elizabeth Taylor. Also, it’s hilarious that Actually Romantic is about her haters 😂
October 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Good morning! After the first listen, my favorite song on the new Taylor Swift album is Elizabeth Taylor. Also, it’s hilarious that Actually Romantic is about her haters 😂
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
I started watching the anime of Nana, a manga I loved when I was in college and have mostly forgotten, and now I'm so sucked in I'm like, forget all other shows and interests, MUST SEE NANA AND REN REUNITE. Also, so glad for serializd where I can see ep by ep reviews of other people hating Shoji
September 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I started watching the anime of Nana, a manga I loved when I was in college and have mostly forgotten, and now I'm so sucked in I'm like, forget all other shows and interests, MUST SEE NANA AND REN REUNITE. Also, so glad for serializd where I can see ep by ep reviews of other people hating Shoji
Folks who are curious about the #Clarissa2025 group read, please be advised that Lovelace continues to be an absolute trip. He wants to remove Clary's heart from her body & carry it around with him in a golden receptacle. He also wrote poetry in which he refers to her lips as "those spicy doors" ✉️
September 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Folks who are curious about the #Clarissa2025 group read, please be advised that Lovelace continues to be an absolute trip. He wants to remove Clary's heart from her body & carry it around with him in a golden receptacle. He also wrote poetry in which he refers to her lips as "those spicy doors" ✉️
For anyone who is curious about updates in the #Clarissa2025 real-time readalong, Clarissa died today. RIP. I do not consider this a spoiler because she has been slowly dying for hundreds of pages. It was starting to feel like a darker version of 'when will she leave her parents' house?'. ✉️
September 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
For anyone who is curious about updates in the #Clarissa2025 real-time readalong, Clarissa died today. RIP. I do not consider this a spoiler because she has been slowly dying for hundreds of pages. It was starting to feel like a darker version of 'when will she leave her parents' house?'. ✉️
my sole history with the Alien franchise is that one scary part of The Great Movie Ride at Disney MGM. And I will say that the random sparks flying as we go down the hallway in Alien Earth has effectively brought that feeling back to me. Surprise nostalgia!
September 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
my sole history with the Alien franchise is that one scary part of The Great Movie Ride at Disney MGM. And I will say that the random sparks flying as we go down the hallway in Alien Earth has effectively brought that feeling back to me. Surprise nostalgia!
Oh man that match was so great. I’m so happy for Naomi, she’s been working so hard to get back here, and she is so locked in. I’m excited for the semis!! 🎾🎾🎾
September 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Oh man that match was so great. I’m so happy for Naomi, she’s been working so hard to get back here, and she is so locked in. I’m excited for the semis!! 🎾🎾🎾
Omg watching Venus and Leylah Fernandez at doubles and this is so good!! 🎾
September 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Omg watching Venus and Leylah Fernandez at doubles and this is so good!! 🎾
What I like most of all is that Naomi is smiling in the little clip montage as we go to an ad 🎾
September 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What I like most of all is that Naomi is smiling in the little clip montage as we go to an ad 🎾
Coco vs Naomi is a match I am so nervous-excited about. I am a fan of both of them (although Naomi's my #1), so I'm happy whoever wins, I just hope it's a good match 🎾
September 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Coco vs Naomi is a match I am so nervous-excited about. I am a fan of both of them (although Naomi's my #1), so I'm happy whoever wins, I just hope it's a good match 🎾
Come on Taylor! Getting that energy back after a heartbreaker tiebreak 🎾
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Come on Taylor! Getting that energy back after a heartbreaker tiebreak 🎾
I’m doing my #Clarissa2025 reading in between watching tennis points and #Clarissa bringing in her future coffin to show to her friends is an intense literary emo/goth girl move. ✉️
August 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’m doing my #Clarissa2025 reading in between watching tennis points and #Clarissa bringing in her future coffin to show to her friends is an intense literary emo/goth girl move. ✉️
this Taylor Townsend tiebreak is killing me
August 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
this Taylor Townsend tiebreak is killing me
The footnotes were good in #Clarissa today. There's an offensive number of Latin quotes in this letter, so I'm flipping to the footnotes for translation. The letter writer attributes the last quote to Ovid, and the footnote says "'A sycophant will never be a friend.' Does not seem to be Ovid." ✉️
August 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The footnotes were good in #Clarissa today. There's an offensive number of Latin quotes in this letter, so I'm flipping to the footnotes for translation. The letter writer attributes the last quote to Ovid, and the footnote says "'A sycophant will never be a friend.' Does not seem to be Ovid." ✉️
Well, they do say a disproportionate number of CEOs are psychopaths
August 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Well, they do say a disproportionate number of CEOs are psychopaths
Huh this post doesn’t seem to have made it to the feed. Maybe I need to add #earthseed or #omelas 🌰
The hyperempathy in this book is interesting. You would think it would make people better, but that doesn't seem to be the case - L is more brutal than she would be otherwise (killing rather than wounding so she won't be incapacitated) and I don't think her good aspects come from her hyperempathy 🌰
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Huh this post doesn’t seem to have made it to the feed. Maybe I need to add #earthseed or #omelas 🌰
The hyperempathy in this book is interesting. You would think it would make people better, but that doesn't seem to be the case - L is more brutal than she would be otherwise (killing rather than wounding so she won't be incapacitated) and I don't think her good aspects come from her hyperempathy 🌰
August 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The hyperempathy in this book is interesting. You would think it would make people better, but that doesn't seem to be the case - L is more brutal than she would be otherwise (killing rather than wounding so she won't be incapacitated) and I don't think her good aspects come from her hyperempathy 🌰