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).

Activity

You added a vocabulary term
9 months, 2 weeks ago

neurasthenia

Martin quickly decided he liked her; she was darkly neurasthenic, but a fairly comfortable valetudinarian by now, despite her hot flushes and her migraines

—p.47 Phoebe: The Business…So I went round there (31) by Martin Amis
notable
You added a vocabulary term
9 months, 2 weeks ago

somnolent

She would ring him and postpone the next visit, her voice somnolent and weirdly hollow.

—p.46 Phoebe: The Business…So I went round there (31) by Martin Amis
notable
You added a vocabulary term
9 months, 2 weeks ago

louche

Tattoos, to him, only looked nice on non-white flesh; and Phoebe’s looked nice, louchely nice on her Amerindian glaze

—p.46 Phoebe: The Business…So I went round there (31) by Martin Amis
notable
You added a vocabulary term
9 months, 2 weeks ago

homily

Remember that homily of Saul’s about ethics and morals, about ethics being money and morals being sex?

—p.29 Guideline: Things Fiction Can’t Do (22) by Martin Amis
notable
You added a vocabulary term
9 months, 2 weeks ago

picaresque

What I was referring to, I later realised, was the erotic picaresque of my early adulthood

—p.16 Part I: Ethics and Morals…The American eagle (3) by Martin Amis
notable