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date: 2023-03-12 17:47:24.05 +00
title: "Mastodon post from March 12, 2023, 110011563642605715"
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threading is getting fragile so I'm backing this out to the main thread: what I thought would be the fifth, sixth, or maybe seventh book of the year turned out to be my eight. Such is the tragic unpredictability of having a full shelf of in-progress and to-read nonsense.

Eighth book of the year: The Museum of Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández ( [https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2010/12/01/museum-of-eternas-novel-the-first-good-novel/](https://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2010/12/01/museum-of-eternas-novel-the-first-good-novel/))

The Rochester "Three Percent" review closes with a lovely summary.


![the current paperback cover, a three color bullseye offset over a white field](./110011563213252092.png)

![The last paragraph of the rochester review (see link in post)](./110011563374315769.png)