Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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libretto

his melodramatic, libretto-like plots

—p.247 Thomas Hardy (241) by James Wood
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labile

his anxious self-deceptions and labile confessions seem modern

—p.240 'Unfathomable!' (Mikhail Lermontov) (227) by James Wood
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excoriating

Conservative readers excoriated what the radicals most liked

—p.237 'Unfathomable!' (Mikhail Lermontov) (227) by James Wood
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contradictions are what make writers interesting

Orwell feared what he most desired: the future. But it is easy to gloat over Orwell's contradictions--to point out that he wrote so well about the drabness and horror of totalitarianism because he himself had a tendency to drab omnipotence; or that the great proponent of urban collectivity liked ru…

—p.224 George Orwell's Very English Revolution (204) by James Wood