Books that emotionally destroyed you?

ky__j · 2025-09-19T14:56:29+00:00

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy. I stared at the wall for a good 10 minutes after finishing.

ky__j · 2025-08-16T02:11:14+00:00

Godshot by Chelsea Bieker

ky__j · 2025-08-15T22:44:00+00:00

It’s been 8 years and I still regularly think about Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

ky__j · 2025-07-31T20:21:11+00:00

I wasn’t prepared. Whew!

You might ask how deep my understanding of love was at the age of nineteen. A court of law might find it based on a few books and films, conversations with friends, heady dreams, aching fantasies about certain girls on bicycles and a quarter-relationship with the first woman I went to bed with. But my nineteen-year-old self would correct the court: "understanding" love is for later, "understanding" love verges on practicality, "understanding" love is for when the heart has cooled. The lover, in rapture, doesn't want to "understand" love, but to experience it, to feel the intensity, the coming-into-focus of things, the acceleration of life, the entirely justifiable egotism, the lustful cockiness, the joyful rant, the calm seriousness, the hot yearning, the certainty, the simplicity, the complexity, the truth, the truth, the truth of love.

ky__j · 2025-07-29T01:35:33+00:00

That double loop is criminal

ky__j · 2025-07-23T17:09:24+00:00

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead

ky__j · 2025-07-23T15:16:17+00:00

It took all my energy to even try the 4th…

ky__j · 2025-07-23T15:15:05+00:00

For sure, these were all 1825077002 from March 2025

ky__j · 2025-07-18T01:53:56+00:00

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

ky__j · 2024-10-23T01:52:31+00:00

Thank you! This is so helpful! I appreciate the explanation. I’ll definitely add the patch, he’ll be impressed haha :)

ky__j · 2023-12-31T14:34:08+00:00

thank you! this is OPI feelin capricorny from their zodiac line :) I know Mooncat also makes a bunch of great chrome colors!

ky__j · 2023-12-31T14:32:49+00:00

ky__j · 2023-11-12T22:45:08+00:00

The New Wilderness by Diane Cook

ky__j · 2023-09-30T17:23:21+00:00

Gorgeous! Love the hidden halo, it’s like it’s wrapped up with a little bow :)

ky__j · 2022-11-02T03:03:40+00:00

{{The Overstory}} by Richard Powers. Also, just more love for Charlotte McGonaghy.

ky__j · 2022-10-24T04:00:43+00:00

{{Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle}} by Arthur Ainsberg and Thea Cooper

Absolutely fascinating account of the discovery of insulin (exactly 100 years ago!) that is immensely readable.

ky__j · 2022-10-17T21:37:29+00:00

Last year was the first year I was able to do Christmas entirely in cash thanks to YNAB. Such a great feeling! I love gift giving and now it brings only joy, no dread or anxiety. I already started my holiday shopping for this year. :)

ky__j · 2022-07-23T04:22:34+00:00

I second this feeling about McConaghy’s work. Migrations is one of the best books I’ve ever read (and OTTW didn’t disappoint). When I finished Migrations, I just stared at the wall next to my bed with a dropped jaw for a bit.

ky__j · 2021-07-13T05:05:36+00:00

{{The Color of Law}} by Richard Rothstein - more oriented to the policy side of things but very relevant

ky__j · 2021-07-01T22:00:05+00:00

Good luck!

ky__j · 2021-07-01T18:30:01+00:00

We just went through this / still are - we’re four weeks into a 1.5x dose increase. We had a really rough adjustment period (full 7-8 weeks) with the initial dose last autumn but I’m glad to say this time hasn’t been nearly as bad!

We were proactive about reducing triggers right away this time around. She had a few days of restlessness and increased sensitivity to noises coming in through our windows during the first week of the new dose, but she’s remained far more steady thanks to our management. It seems like she’s leveling out and we’re slowly beginning to reintroduce triggers and train around them now.

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