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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don’t think so. 60 pages in and I don’t like any of the characters, for one thing.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Might just be taking a glimpse of this, but it’s so well written and compelling…

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m going to need to get my hands on some Marlon James today.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Spent most of the day with this novel, start to finish. It has a hungry current, has love for its subjects, has intrigue, has also clarity and space…it absolutely rips.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I can’t decide on this Booker-shortlister yet, though at 30 pages, I’m farther in than I got with either Strout or Stuart. It feels cold and easy, but like there might be a twist or some authentic darkness in store.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Rilke on roses: “That one should open like an eye, / to show more lids … to quench / an inner fire of visionary power.” Anne Carson on roses: “They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets / and howling colossal intimacies / from the back of their fused throats.”

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Garden heat for the chili, corked and ready.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To do laundry (visible) and clean the kitchen cupboards or read this puppy I THINK YOU KNOW MY CHOICE.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the other night. It drag-assed in the middle, but I’m committed to Paul Newman as the most beautiful human face who ever lived.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Deliciously out of control, the stacks. Every day, awake in multiple lives, through these books.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Making a pear-ricotta-prosciutto tart with gnarly little Bosc-adjacent pears from the yard

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thought I might dive into some Gass

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I could sit here while Cărtărescu rapturizes about love and death and the nature of reality til my little insect brain freezes.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Finding a first edition that was turned into a very popular and very timely Netflix series for $1 is fun.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I asked my kid for a chart of the lineages of Greek gods and then realized Hesiod’s Theogony might just sing it to me.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All day in bed with books. I’m almost done with the Vonnegut.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A wonderful person was selling wonderful books in the next town over. These for myself and a stack to resell—I did all I could.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every pre-dawn morning, I hear a barred owl hoo makes me glad to live here.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Something about this novel makes me feel like a kid again, although it’s a multitude more complex than anything I ever read then. It’s magic, though. (Darconville’s Cat by Alexander Theroux) Will the magic hold?

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What even is this cover. I love it.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Woolf day with a cover design by Rudi Bass

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Quiche from the home chickens for dinner

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life.” Moby Dick

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The art of thought is the art, says Oehler, of breaking off thinking right before the lethal moment.” Thomas Bernhard on insanity in his novella Walking

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I nearly rejected this like a foreign organ, but Darconville’s Cat is growing on me.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In one sitting, hearing Allegri’s Miserere Mei, Deus, at the beck of your own child, it will undo you.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Burgess’s Joysprick was leaving me in the dust, so I’m turning to Ellmann, who operates more on a thematic level rather than a linguistic one. This still promises some real muscle juice for the synapses.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first Booker-Prize shortlister has landed from the library. I’m just going to check it out right quick on my lunch break here. Oprah’s Book Club does not bode well, in my experience.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My former supervisor got in touch from her new company. My relationship with those Powell’s books and a celebratory meal out is getting sewious.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I subscribe to The New Yorker archives but have yet to use it much. I hate reading on a device and their app’s search function royally sux. This morning I discovered I can Google the archived article I’m seeking and follow the resultant link to the story. Roundabout, but thank gawd.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This local woman is selling a stack of 1990s New Yorkers for $25 a pop and I’m like, you go, girl.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The myth of Phaeton. “Mortal your lot—not mortal your desire.”

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Powell’s hooked me with a 20%-off code for used books and I’m plundering their stock for Bataille, Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, William Carlos Williams…but I probably have to sell a toilet first.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finished Hesiod’s Works and Days (fantastic for its domestic detail), into The Bacchae, Symposium, and Metamorphoses (my favorite—so vivid).

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I remember most about the Plains from a brief visit is the constant wind and the prairie grasses, which maintained their own unrelenting density between earth and sky.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read the first paragraph of Darconville’s Cat online and I might not fight to get my hand’s on this one.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Solenoid just ecstatic with descriptors, just totally overwhelming, a flash flood in the brain…

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How many books can I buy if I sell these blue bathroom fixtures we found roadside…

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Counting on this nor’easter to snug me in for the day. I’ve got the candles and the books.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Amusing myself by placing holds on the entire Booker Prize shortlist at my local library. Let’s see which beauty lands first…

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wearing out my post-its on this glorious thing (Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu). I haven’t been this eager about a novel since Septology or White Noise.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah, these great reads have spoiled me. I just can’t do stuff like this anymore.

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Kate Ardis Oden @odenka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

To go to a book sale 40 miles away or to read all day…

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