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jean-jacques rousseau, please stop confessing!

June 24, 2026May 31, 2026 nesskingsley

Jean-Jacques was born. And everybody has been suffering ever since.

Tagged books, i can't stand this man, jeans-jacques rousseau, reading, sheer hatred4 Comments
not my cuppa

yesteryear all my troubles seemed so far awayyyyy

May 27, 2026May 23, 2026 nesskingsley

I don't like Christian fiction because I find that the veil that separates the sermon from the story is threadbare, and it becomes a didactic mess; Yesteryear has the same issue.

Tagged caro claire burke, ebook, fiction, reading, tradwife, yesteryear6 Comments
the glass maker by tracey chevalier
books misc, ness talks books, not my cuppa

venice doesn’t believe in the concept of time (but i do)

February 2, 2026February 6, 2026 nesskingsley

Oh it doth make NO sense!

Tagged reading, the glassmaker, tracy chevalier, venice2 Comments
ness talks books, not my cuppa

oh no no, Delilah

October 1, 2025September 24, 2025 nesskingsley

It was an incredibly horny book that made me want to retreat into my skin like a turtle.

Tagged biblical fiction, books, Christian fiction, not my fav, reading, review5 Comments

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posts written in the recent-past

  • jean-jacques rousseau, please stop confessing!
  • everything is awful AKA existential dread AKA what’s a person to do?
  • yesteryear all my troubles seemed so far awayyyyy
  • studying & working full time & writing books & having hobbies too – how i [don’t] do it all and how you can too
  • this kingdom will not kill me (but it will destroy my sleep)

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