Books I've actually finished lately: 89b

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Let it be, for all I care, someone else's wife who rang, barely a minute earlier, while he was sauntering houndstoothed up Charing Cross Road to his sun-filled offices in Bloomsbury, to announce, 'Enough, over, it's been wonderful, but something more wonderful has come my way.'

- Howard Jacobson, Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It

Books I've actually finished lately: 43

Capitalism. I don't know. Capitalism means pain and fear but also a walk on the moon and a hybrid car and this email and all the comforts that make life less bad. Capitalism is just people and when we say it's evil, we're really just expressing our disappointment with people. In the fact that they're not better than they are. That they're just people.

- Aaron Thier