Monthly Archives: December 2019

The best books I read in 2019

Unlike most years, Not only did I read a book that came out this year, but I also read a book by this year’s Nobel winner, Olga Tokarczuk. It was good! But there are things I read that I thought … Continue reading

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2019 in Review: Articles Part 2

And here is the rest of the interesting stuff I read on the internet this year. This post has the good stuff. History and Narrative Japan’s Rent-a-family Industry Elif Batuman in the New Yorker writes about the Japanese rent-a-family industry, … Continue reading

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2019 in Review: Articles Part 1

Here are some interesting things I read on the internet this year. This post is going to contain writing about news and politics, while historical pieces, personal narratives and fiction are going to be in the next post. Maddeningly inconsistent … Continue reading

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2019 in Review: Quotes

2019 wasn’t really a year where I wrote stuff down. But I did keep an interesting quotes file where I copied and pasted stuff. Here it is There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us—we … Continue reading

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