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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anomie

With three kids to support, he dare not venture down the road of anomie and irony and entropy, the Beat road that Kerouac blazed and Pynchon followed.

—p.307 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (303) by Jonathan Franzen
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Gemütlichkeit

he instills these locales with a weird kind of Gemütlichkeit.

—p.266 Love Letters (263) by Jonathan Franzen
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montane

nestled between a stricly protected montane forest and the bright-blue freshwater expanses of Dong Qian Hu

—p.199 The Chinese Puffin (169) by Jonathan Franzen
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divot

The roads were modern but heavily divoted, as if it were understood that they would all be torn up again soon anyway.

on Shanghai

—p.175 The Chinese Puffin (169) by Jonathan Franzen
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inveigh

inveighed against "the Turk" and his "Maltese lackeys"

—p.88 The Ugly Mediterranean (73) by Jonathan Franzen
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