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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no longer a genre

Works of fantasy or science fiction that also succeed in literary terms are hard to find, and are rightly to be treasured [...] And just as one is triumphantly sizing up this thin elite, one thinks correctively of that great fantasist Kafka, or even of Beckett, two writers who impress can be felt, …

—p.29 The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (28) by James Wood
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vertiginous

we experience a vertiginous relationship to a select number of photographs of humans

—p.24 W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (16) by James Wood
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veridical

undeniably accurate and veridical photographs of buildings

—p.23 W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (16) by James Wood
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stolid

As the stolid rugby players do not, these victims seem to be looking at us

—p.22 W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz (16) by James Wood
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