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Blue

Joni Mitchell

The benchmark. Everything laid out without flinching — the loneliness, the wanting, the California lightness that somehow makes the sadness heavier. 'A Case of You' alone justifies the whole thing. Every serious songwriter has had to reckon with this record. You can hear it in everything that came after.

★★★★★5.0

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novel1965

Stoner

John Williams

The saddest book I've read about a life that looks, from the outside, like a failure. Stoner becomes a professor, has a miserable marriage, one love affair, one friendship that matters. The world ignores him almost completely. And yet the prose won't let you ignore him. It insists his life mattered. It insists yours does too.

★★★★★5.0

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stayed with me