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My September 2025 Reading Summary
Overall mood: rushed – given that I challenged myself this past month to reading classic fiction and dark academia fiction, this month has been a bit of a repetitive one in terms of themes, angles, and character tropes. I am glad I read these books, but it has impacted the way I read this month…
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Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector’s Short, Sombre Brazilian Classic
There’s a line on page 8 that summarises Clarice Lispector’s Hour of the Star perfectly – ‘what I am about to write can’t be absorbed by minds that are very demanding and covet refinement.’ That could also sum up her writing in general, but I found it profound in the first few pages of this…
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