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).

26
New
12
Incomplete
14
Unread
37
Publications
792
Complete
5
Ignored

Activity

Filter
Section Author Term Note Book Tag All
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 1 month ago

Bellerophon
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value

a print of the seal [...] shows "the mythic hero Bellerophon slaying the Chimera [...]"

quoted from TPK

—p.226 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
notable
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 1 month ago

solecism

Solecisms are always meaningful in Wallace

forgot what it meant

—p.224 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
uncertain
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 1 month ago

somatic

another suggestion that somatic costs and monetary compensation do not balance

referring to a quote of DFW's dismissing the idea of being paid to undergo pain (i.e., taking an advance on a book)

—p.219 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
notable
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 1 month ago

imbroglio

Fogle endures a legal imbroglio after his father's death

—p.218 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
notable
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 1 month ago

sundered

the American social contract is being sundered

—p.218 E Pluribus Unum (198) by Jeffrey Severs
confirm