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  1. pave, Pave, PAVE.

    https://alt.pavethe.earth

    alt.pave.the.earth faqalt.pavethe.earth

  2. 12th (I am not tryna spell "twelth?f?”th, these stories deserve to be 13th, alas) book of 2024: “Magic for Beginners”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners). Yep.

    Magic for Beginners - Kelly LinkRandom House re-released Magic for Beginners with a newly designed cover and an added conversation between Joe Hill and Kelly Link. Perfect for readers of George Saunders, Karen Russell, Neil Gaiman, and Aimee Bender, Magic for Beginners is an exquisite, dreamlike dispatch from a virtuoso storyteller who can do seemingly anything. Kelly Link reconstructs modern […]Kelly Link

    Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).

    the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”

  3. had to move the adirondack i was sunning myself in about fifteen feet into a clearing because the trees above where it was initially are so full of bees that every other thought i had was “buzz”

    photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind

    not helped by this 🐝 being 🐝what i was reading at the time https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old/the-hortlak

    The Hortlak - Kelly LinkEric was night, and batu was day. The girl, Charley, was the moon. Every night, she drove past the All-Night in her long, noisy, green Chevy, a dog hanging out the passenger window. It wasn’t ever the same dog, although they all had the same blissful expression. They were doomed, but they didn’t know it. […]Kelly Link

    me: time to read a creepy story with bugs in it

    bugs: ugh, hey, hi, so, uh, am i in that one?

    me: 🙄 yes

  4. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O’Shaughnessy Blvd

    🏁 what I’m considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill.

  5. tenth book of 2024: “Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov. Nice.

    the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,

    eleventh book of 2024: “Trust”, by Herman Diaz. ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58210933)

    TrustAlternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593420317. An unpa…Goodreads

    Insulting to anarchists. “Obama liked this!” should have turned me away, but i was a fool.

    Meh. Almost DNF’d about ⅔ of the way through but I’m on vacation and had an hour to slog through.

    On the bright side, when I drop it off at one of those little free libraries maybe someone will have left a classic I can trade up for.

    The paperback cover of "Trust", by Hernan Diaz, as i read it, except my copy as the pulitzer prize winner seal on it.

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