Kate Ardis Oden

Brief book reviews and book-related posts. I’m reading and reflecting instead of pursuing a formal MFA. || Header image: Reconciliation Elegy, R. Motherwell

[Kate Ardis Oden @OdenKate]

I’m a beginner writer but an intermediate human.

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@_motherslug Right? Bouffant Karenina with the looming silhouettes…

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Just your average day, picking up a nearly-100-year-old Turgenev at the dump. Also, I gravitate towards Norton Critical editions on the assumption they’re of scholarly worth—is that correct? Love this one with 1970s-style Anna.

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@edtelleza Good to hear. I have a couple, but typically do not buy them if they’re heavily underlined, which is pretty often.

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@realMattKParker Oh, really? I’ve been looking for a good translation of Notes from Underground…

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A cure for violent rage: books.

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@TheWavesBroke That’s so lovely. It gives me pause and new gumption, to see it. Thank you.

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After reading Krasznihorkai’s Spadework for a Palace, I wish I had the focus for a big baddy like Moby Dick or Under the Volcano. Library does not have any Lowry. Should I buy this with points, for a future self? Vollmann included in this edition…

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@dklive2 I tear my hair out over it, but then it snaps with crystal-clear insight into childhood, memory, love, jealousy…I might be in for In a Budding Grove…

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67 PAGES, DAMN IT (Morning Proust)

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@Md1819 Wow, that’s cool and totally new to me.

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The dust jacket and cover are worn, but inside, this edition I found for free reads brand new. Is this the biggie to replace Proust? (50-something pages left!)

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Here begins Dianamus Books.

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@RickOehling What! I don’t think I need any more epics, but…

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@Md1819 @andrewbertaina This is told in Spadework as his entry to the US. In any case, totally wild and endearing.

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@DepartureJay 🍷☄️🍷

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@andrewbertaina Tasty, tasty—Moby Dick first, maybe? Concurrently?! I’m all over the place and just embracing it.

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@StuartKells They’re pretty charming. This I put in half-jokingly as an indictment of our current government, but I also know Renault from reputation…

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Update on snobby free library readership: The Lauren Groff and Kay Redfield Jamison went home with somebody recently. Before that, someone took Absurdistan, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, and The English Patient. And relieved me of my slightly used and hideous guest book. What?!

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@pourfairelevide I know that feeling. May you continue to know true happiness. 🍷

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What a grim caper. It leaves me giddy and preoccupied with art, denial and preservation of greatness, the universal, catastrophe. Long live melvill.