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The Curator: where I get my book recs
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why you should read books that are really hard to finish
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22 books to read before you die?
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How to read an intimidating book
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The Curator: best reads of 2024
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The Curator: a steady diet of female literature
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The Curator: May reads as self-assigned homework
plus all the non-book things I consumed this month and unicorn pens to lust after
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: a new favorite series, some nordic noir, and a Catholic vampire story
everything I read in April, plus some book world drama & who is crying at work
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: new release books I might actually read
plus a few that I won't.
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The Curator: a neo-gothic, the uncanny, and lots of speculation
everything I read in March, including my favorite Substacks of the month
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: a steady diet of female literature
can stories be your savior?
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: some melancholy, a bit of speculation, and a bunch of self reflection
everything I read in February, plus my faith in the humanities and chicken shop dates
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: one star reviews of my favorite books
haters gonna hate and we love them for it
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The Curator: where I get my book recs
and what I'm reading in 2025
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Natalie McGlocklin
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Book Essays

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the [in]sanity of The Haunting of Hill House
is the house haunted or am I?
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Natalie McGlocklin
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The tragic comedy of The Bee Sting
why Paul Murray is the best of the Booker Pauls [thus far].
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The audacity of The Shards
why Bret Easton Ellis' latest book proves he hasn't changed a bit
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The dreadful beauty of East of Eden
searching for the good and evil in Steinbeck's masterpiece
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Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
when we become the virus
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Natalie McGlocklin
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Stephen King's The Stand
or Stephen King Rules
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Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Finding a new favorite author in Mariana Enriquez and why family will be the death of us in any language.
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Natalie McGlocklin
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North Woods by Daniel Mason
Time is an infinite loop vortex.
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