Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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most books will go out of print forever, as most deserve to

Corporate publishing is the channel through which literature happens to flow at this moment in history. The legal and political economic imperatives of the moment mean that the rights to backlist titles will tend to accumulate in a few hands to be exploited for as long as the copyright lasts. Most …

—p.188 Granta 168: Significant Other Literature Without Literature (171) missing author
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1 year, 8 months ago

encomium

encomia to industrialists and contempt for the canaille were less in demand

—p.173 Literature Without Literature (171) missing author
notable
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1 year, 8 months ago

only babies could get away with falling asleep anywhere

In minutes they were kissing. Sometimes they got their wires all – it was stupid. Why was it so hard for them to hear each other? Sometimes it felt like they’d never met before.

‘Do you sometimes feel like you’ve never met me before?’ she asked him, breaking the kiss. He tried not to let her. ‘D…

—p.159 Bitter north (151) missing author
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he wanted to shame Danna with his confusion

‘Hold on,’ she said to Hal. She looked at Maps. ‘It says go straight.’ Danna looked up and ahead. ‘It’s a toll road here.’

‘I know,’ Hal said. ‘Which is why I got confused. We didn’t rent the – the thing, the whatever –’

‘What thing –’

‘The pass, the special pass that beeps. For tolls.’

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—p.156 Bitter north (151) missing author
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this is something I’ve not been able to change

Over the years I’ve experimented with many types of men, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m only attracted to conventionally attractive men who are tall. Taller than me. I understand I’ve been conditioned to feel this way but so far this is something I’ve not been able to change. Conventional…

—p.52 Embrace (47) missing author