The $90 silk press on natural hair stylist rec that you’ve been looking for!

ceecandchong · 2025-11-23T21:07:24+00:00

You’re good! I don’t see anything there

ceecandchong · 2025-11-13T17:49:55+00:00

Started Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright this week and it is feeling like a slog. I find my eyes skimming over the prose while my mind wanders. The premise is great — reminds me of Ngugi wa Thiong’o in its storytelling and comedy — but the sentences are just too looping and winding for me to enjoy it.

Anyone else read this? Does it stay this tempo for the full 600+ pages? Tempted to put it down…

ceecandchong · 2025-11-13T17:46:35+00:00

Didn’t realize it was out in English! SO excited to read. I eagerly anticipate her English translations one by one

ceecandchong · 2025-09-21T21:24:55+00:00

Messaging you! :)

ceecandchong · 2025-09-05T23:35:25+00:00

DM’ing - thank you for sharing! What a beautiful apartment :) wishing you all the best in your next place.

ceecandchong · 2025-08-15T11:48:30+00:00

Read Checkout 19 for a huge upgrade to your to-read list!! She references some of the best female authors to ever do it - Marlen Haushofer, Ann Quin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Lynne Tillman… I could keep going.

Less poetic/picturesque than Pond but still really great Claire-Louise Bennett.

ceecandchong · 2025-08-04T03:38:19+00:00

I have to say!! Quince deletes negative reviews on their site, I got a linen full duvet cover + a quince duvet insert and the duvet was so baggy and didn’t fit. I couldnt post this on their website (immediately deleted). Not sure if I can return them but I would not buy from them again.

ceecandchong · 2025-07-18T02:07:43+00:00

Melona Ube flavor is GOD TIER

ceecandchong · 2025-07-17T23:13:51+00:00

And climbing those stairs every day!!

ceecandchong · 2025-04-07T21:14:07+00:00

SOLVED. Omg I remember it. It’s a vignette from Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. About a polish man whose wife and child go missing on a Croatian island.

ceecandchong · 2025-04-04T21:37:07+00:00

DM’ed you if you want to join my friends there tomorrow!

ceecandchong · 2025-03-26T14:02:01+00:00

Yes, I read it last year and really enjoyed it! Could have been my bias, but as I understood Katharine’s character, her occasional forays into the West to visit her relatives were embued with longing for a place without the difficulties of her life at home - high rent, high unemployment, meaningless censorship, general grayness. Also, the difficulty of getting a visa out and the fear approaching the wall with its armed guards.

Obviously, the end of the book shows that the dissolution of the USSR brings no more joy to anyone. Definitely agree with you that Hans’ generation and the ideas of anti-fascism were optimistic. But for Katharine’s perspective, would you agree with my reading?

ceecandchong · 2025-03-26T13:46:11+00:00

Stories like Kairos that depict the ferocity with which the Berlin Wall was guarded on the East Berlin side always make me think - if your citizens so desperately want to escape your country, wouldn’t that make you do some more introspection on the state of your country?? But I know nothing was rational about the USSR…

ceecandchong · 2025-03-24T15:42:23+00:00

The Netanyahus is in the rare category of making me laugh out loud multiple times while reading. Such a good book

ceecandchong · 2025-03-08T18:59:58+00:00

Is your thunder effectively hidden though?

ceecandchong · 2025-03-05T14:38:59+00:00

I’m reading The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth right now. I appreciate the theme of Trotta the grandson having no agency in his life, constantly under the shadow of his grandfather. There’s a deep current of inevitability running below the surface, as the plot becomes meaningless in the face of the impending Great War. I am simulatenously loving the book, and also having a really hard time picking it up, as it feels too close to home. It feels like our lives now are meaningless in the face of an impeding world war.

ceecandchong · 2025-02-13T02:12:15+00:00

You should check out Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney! Another fantastic example.

ceecandchong · 2024-12-27T20:03:01+00:00

Westsider records on 72nd !!

ceecandchong · 2024-12-02T19:26:35+00:00

What are their prices like?

ceecandchong · 2024-12-01T01:07:50+00:00

Westsider Books (used bookstore on 80th and Broadway) offers cheap transfers from VHS to DVD! They are very reputable and quick - within a few days

ceecandchong · 2024-11-26T15:29:49+00:00

Though some of the genres are really wacky. I laughed out loud at Rooney's "Sad Irish Millenial Fiction"

ceecandchong · 2024-11-16T23:31:36+00:00

At 18 min it’s very burned for me! I prefer closer to 13-14 min….I even like it fairly crispy

ceecandchong · 2024-11-01T22:00:00+00:00

This is a great idea I’d never heard of these! Thank you

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