the only books i've rated 5 stars in 2024 (so far)

we're mid-way through the year, but my reading this year has been anything but MID

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🤠 how old are you? 25!
📆 when is your birthday? 18th october 1998 (libra)
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sub count:
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video chapters:
00:00 introduction
02:11 Happy All The Time by Laurie Colwin
05:12 Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna
08:41 White Nights by Dostoyevsky
11:22 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (translated by Michael Hoffman)
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15:13 The Details by Ia Genberg (translated by Kira Josefsson)
17:17 Boulder by Eva Baltasar Garda (translated by Julia Sanches)
19:35 Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors