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Themes ↦ Absurdity

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Themes ↦ Absurdity

author, premise or hype

New-to-me Authors Read in 2025

A Top Ten Tuesday list of new-to-me authors I read in 2025, plus the real question underneath: was I pulled in by the author, the premise, or the hype, and did the book deliver?

The Hitch

Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book.

Reflections on Fever Beach

My reading notes from this book, gathered across several encounters—ideas that resonated, arguments that stayed with me, moments worth returning to.

Reflections on The Atavists

Collected here are my notes, highlights, and returning thoughts on this book—observations that surfaced during reading and what stayed with me after.

Reflections on The Dog of the South

These are reflections and marginalia from my encounters with this book, focused more on what proved memorable than on plot summary.

Reflections on When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Reading notes and reflections gathered across multiple encounters with this book, focusing on moments that resonated rather than plot summary.

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