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Patatamus Synonymus

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How a 1946 Book Unraveled My Sense of Safety in the World

Can there still be hope after John Hersey’s “Hiroshima”?

Oct 3

An illustration of John Hersey’s book Hiroshima with a cover featuring a red sun, a torii gate, and a bare tree branch. Behind the book, a red mushroom cloud rises, symbolizing the atomic bomb.

Oct 3

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About Me — Patatamus Synonymus

An alter ego on the journey of exploring “how did I get here?” and “what now?”

Feb 20

Two stacks of books, pencil drawn in black and red right next to an anthropomorphized cartoon hippopotamus who looks at a red butterfly.

Feb 20

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How I Became a Reader, For Better and For Worse

In the beginning, it wasn’t about what books I read, it was about proving something to the world.

Feb 17

How I Became a Reader, For Better and For Worse

Feb 17

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Can. You. Please. Stop. Chewing. So. Loud.

How moving in with my boyfriend and befriending the kitchen turned into a dramatic saga of self-discovery

Sep 4

Two beet halves, shaped like two halves of an anatomical heart, are placed on a wooden cutting board. Each beet half has simple white and gray drawings on it: the left beet shows a small white figure curled up with a larger grey figure looming aggressively above it; the right one shows a small white figure with a chef’s hat and a huge spoon, standing up to a larger grey figure that looks confused. The drawings represent scenes from the inner life of the protagonist.

Sep 4

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That Time I Might Have Eaten a Raw Egg

Or: the slippery foundation on which I’ve built the glory in my story of origin

Jul 30

Two nearly identical black and white old photos of a smiling toddler, two or three years old, wearing a bonnet and a patterned dress, standing on a concrete path in front of a house with decorative elements near a white door. The photos are angled slightly. In the bottom right corner, there is a pencil-style sketch of a cracked raw egg, with yolk and egg white spilling softly, drawn in greyscale with red in the yolk. The tone is nostalgic.

Jul 30

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The Beginning of Time, the Beginning of the River Sea

Telepathy, ancestral memory, and a journey beyond linear time in Petru Popescu’s “Amazon Beaming”- the true story of Loren McIntyre’s…

Jul 21

The Beginning of Time, the Beginning of the River Sea

Jul 21

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The Book That Broke the Spell of Supermarkets

How Palahniuk’s ‘Invisible Monsters’ reframed my first trip abroad

May 26

The Book That Broke the Spell of Supermarkets

May 26

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How a Book Accidentally Blew Up My Entire Belief System

Steinbeck’s ‘East of Eden’ and the most important word in the world

Apr 12

How a Book Accidentally Blew Up My Entire Belief System

Apr 12

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What My Grandmother Left Behind

How grief changed everything — and why I’m grateful for it.

Mar 12

What My Grandmother Left Behind

Mar 12

Patatamus Synonymus

Patatamus Synonymus

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Bookseller & avid reader, gardener & permaculture enthusiast, traveler and fresh neo rural citizen. Also - 35, penniless, and wondering: how did I get here?

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