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Summer was on the roofs of Gormenghast
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July 2023

June 2023

Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
Perhaps it is most miraculous when God exacts justice even when no human lifts a finger.
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Certain things, it is made clear, will not be spoken aloud
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More Kinky Friedman by Kinky Friedman
I looked at the cat across the darkening, desperate afternoon.
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The Public Image by Muriel Spark
"Your husband thought of everything."
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May 2023

Diego Garcia by Natahsa Soobramanien and Luke Williams
"Erasure and defacement concoct ghosts; I don't want to haunt you, but I will."
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The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
"For the well-bred gentleman there was surely only one recourse."
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Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
"The Tree Church on the sgnurr above where he lay back upon the land."
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The Solitudes by John Crowley
"A plan, a pearl of purpose distilled from whatever the dream had been"
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