Thread by @EllyHB

Help— it’s 3:30am and I’m buying so many books and my last haul hasn’t even arrived yet and there’s no one here to stop me

Excuse me.

There is a Prime Reading that lets you (e-)read books instantly and for free?! I am not an electronic reader but how did I not know this. Limited selection but I already found (it already suggested) Mary Oliver & Joan Didion so I’ll survive the night. Thanks Amazon!

Prime Reading has a TON of classics, just challenging to navigate. I’m talking Proust, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Nietzsche, Goethe, Conrad, Voltaire, Greene, Orwell, Fitzgerald, Tolstoy, Poe, Flaubert, Joyce, H. James, Wharton, Lawrence, Shaw, Eliot, Shakespeare, Twain, Austen, Brontë

With as much pain as precision I maneuvered my cart below twenty (to nineteen) and clicked Complete Your Order. On the next screen, Order Confirmation, I felt a combination of breathless exhilaration and guilt-ridden dread. But without any alternative, I clicked Continue Shopping

If you need something to read, might I suggest:
- A selection of Kafka including The Trial & The Metamorphosis: kafka-online.info/works.htm
- Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow: 6booksy.com/books/10727/pa…
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: freebooks8.com/Fiction_Librar…

Why ever sleep?

Have some Camus with your morning coffee:
- The Stranger: macobo.com/essays/epdf/CA…
- The Fall: bibotu.com/books/2013b/CA…
- The Myth of Sisyphus: dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilText…

“But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.”
—The Plague: 24grammata.com/wp-content/upl…

Feed your dread with more (free) reads:
- Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling archive.org/details/fear-a…
- Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms gutenberg.org/files/11945/11…
- Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground epdf.pub/notes-from-und…
- Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra epdf.pub/thus-spake-zar…