enframed wrote: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/ ... ay/685276/

Yay Jodi Ess!

Yay, indeed! Happy new year, if she's reading this.

And I still regret not saving any 1990s tokens. (I'm less sentimental about the Metro Card. It's a flimsy piece of plastic w/o the aesthetic appeal.)

As for Omni, I'm now one of those assholes using a physical Omni card loaded w/cash, as I don't love the idea of subway fare on my credit or debit card. Never mind that so far, about half the time, the machines that take the cash don't seem to actually be in service.

2666 by Bolaño: my copy is dogeared in the way I mark pages, so I know I’ve read at least part of it before, but I don’t remember anything about it.

Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy.

Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco.

I read a lot of junk sci-fi to go to sleep to, mainly Warhammer stuff. The weirdest thing I’ve discovered reading Rose is just how much the folks that established the Warhammer lore took from this novel. I’m not being cute, there are whole chunks of names, Latin phrasing and descriptions of locations and “the feel” that are literally lifted into the gothic grimness of Warhammer 40K.

It’s pretty funny. Warhammer is a weird mix of 2000 AD, Dune, HP Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock I was not expecting a medieval detective novel with long passages of obscure catholic mythology.

Gramsci wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:18 pm Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco.

I read this years ago, I remember hearing that it was a difficult read, but I didn't think so.
Also, we watched the movie version in a high school history course, and our teacher spun the TV around during the sex scene!

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 10:25 am 2666 by Bolaño: my copy is dogeared in the way I mark pages, so I know I’ve read at least part of it before, but I don’t remember anything about it.

How wonderful for you! I loved the book.

Gramsci wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:18 pm Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco.

I love that book!

enframed wrote:

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2026 10:25 am 2666 by Bolaño: my copy is dogeared in the way I mark pages, so I know I’ve read at least part of it before, but I don’t remember anything about it.

How wonderful for you! I loved the book.

I started it yesterday and I’m already 112 pages in. I even brought it to work. There’s no way it landed with me in my 20s the way it’s landing right now because I am fully IN. They just now arrived in Mexico so I’m excited to see where it goes.

Borrowing my girlfriend's copy of My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. I'm liking it so far. It's been a while since I've read a real mental health struggle story (maybe The Bell Jar was the last I read?), and I appreciate reading stories like that. I've always felt like the conversation about mental health in our culture today doesn't really include a lot of input from people who are experiencing or have experienced profound mental illness, so reading a story that comes across as genuine is kind of a relief.

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney. Can't remember why I decided to get this one.

Hitler’s Monsters. A deep dive into the history of occultism and esotericism in Nazi Germany. It leads in with the period leading up to their establishment and rise to power. It’s absolutely fascinating. So much woo it boggles the mind.