Cartographic book reviews and thoughts about literature. Reading as exploration, books as territories to traverse. Not plot summaries or star ratings but the actual experience of inhabiting another consciousness for long enough to see how they've mapped the world.
On what fiction does and doesn't do, what empathy means and costs, and why some books change how you think rather than what you think.
TBR Pile: 59+ booksBook reviews: Currently closed to new arrivals until I’ve cleared the wreckage of this pile.
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I keep wondering whether commitment confines us, or gives shape to something larger than the self. What emerges is the friction between the “I” and the “we”. Crudo suggests that love is not resolution, but stamina: the willingness to remain inside the rawness of being seen.
