musings
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inherited, then edited
I used to think this was a false binary, the kind of question people ask at dinner parties to sound like they’ve read enough philosophy to have opinions. Now I think it’s a real question with an answer I don’t love. Experience does most of the shaping. Not all of it. But most. Starting close…
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yesteryear: there are no winners on this homestead
Caro Claire Burke’s debut is about Natalie Heller Mills, a tradwife influencer with eight million followers who wakes up in 1855, living the exact pioneer life she’s been cosplaying for her audience. It’s structurally a thriller. But the time travel isn’t really the point of it. The point is that every character in this book…