This book had a unique premise of falling in love with someone on the NYC subway who is stuck in a type of temporal loop. This book was mildly entertaining but at 400 pages, it was kind of too long!!! Especially since really nothing happens in the book. However, it's still a talent to be able to write so much. I really couldn't do it

page 88: "Okay, hold on. You can't just tell somebody they're dead. We have to make sure she's dead first."

This is a book about someone who gets stuck inside Slack, basically gets stuck inside his computer and can't get out, so he has to spend his days "working from home" and asking a colleague to take care of his physical body which is in a catonic state. I guess this is a commentary of life under covid and how everyone has to be in online meetings and stuff all the time. It was a little humourous but definitely not a lot humourous.

p.42. "look, I know you don't believe me when I say I'm imprisoned in our slack workplace."

p. 103: His colleauge upon discovering that his colleague is stuck in slack: "I dunno man, maybe I should just bring you to a hospital or call Slack tech support or something."

This book was about a man who is pretty much kidnapped and has to live in a sand dune. He tries to escape but no dice! Will he or will he not escape? I dunno, you have to read the book, but I already kind of gave it away!

​This book was okay, I read a review about it someplace at one point, so I wanted to check it out. It’s about 3 people, and it’s decent, but not great or anything, I would skip it if I were me.

This book is an interesting read about growing up in very difficult conditions.

This book was interesting because it says to enjoy life now, and not worry so much about the uncertain future. It says to accumulate as many interesting experiences as you can now so you can have experience dividends! The author says your life is about all the memories you make, and to leave money on the table after you die is a waste of those years you spent working for them.

I'm not sure about this, like for example, being in debt and not saving can be totally catastrophic, and from my understanding a lot of people are not financially prepared for retirement. But I guess it's a careful balance, and this book reminds you to have fun and to enjoy the moment, I guess.

Page 188: "People are more afraid of running out of money than wasting their life, and that's got to switch. Your biggest dear ought to be wasting your life and not, not Am I going to have x number of dollars when I'm 80?"

Pessoa is one of the most famous writers in Portugal! I found out about him from Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin a lot of years ago. This book was good, but it was too long and Pessoa's life was not that interesting besides that he had multiple personalities and stuff.

"I'm suffering from a headache and the universe."

"Given the dearth of people he can get along with, what can a man of sensibility do but invent his own friends, or at least his intellectual companions?"

"I've created in myself various personalities. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I."

"He was incapable of being pragmatic, of taking practical steps to achieve realistic goals... "

"Dead we're born, dead we live, and already dead we enter death."

"What is life that we should care for it?
What is love that we should bear for it
Hope and despair and misery?

Nothing is worth anything.
Let us shut out hope,
And cross our arms and close our eyes
And let apathy be king"

"Agency of Indefinite Business Matters."

"Perhaps glory tastes like death and futility, and triumph tastes smells of rottenness."

"I am no longer me, I'm a fragment of myself conserved in an abandoned museum."

"the school was conceived as a form of international outreach, whereby Portuguese professors... would teach the rest of the world how to sublimely, aristocratically do nothing at all."

""Today I'm not me," Fernando would warn her, "I'm my friend Alvaro de Campos.""

"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept - our own selves - that we love."

"But at any rate it doesn't matter, because at any rate, nothing matters."

This is a nonfiction book about punctuation marks! In history, there were a lot of different punctuation marks, and a lot of them got lost! So it's interesting to read about them!!!

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It was a fast read. About a sister who takes over her sister's identity to get health insurance for her cancer.

"I know that attending college is like praying to God. It's not that you believe in it; you do it just in case."
"People don't really want to know how you're doing =. They want to wait until you're done telling them so they can tell you how they're doing."

I read this book, and it was okay! It was about a student who works for someone who he looks up to and in the end turns out to be a crook or something.

"And that's when I realized that loving someone was basically, simply, this: to be the fuel for her depletions."

"It is often difficult to live just one life."

"A handful of extraordinary people come up with world-tilting ideas, but the rest of us, the 99.99 percent, we simply orbit."

"We're engineered with an ever-ready PTSD, maybe because surviving usually means suffering."

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