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2025 in Book Quotes
hey there👋 Thanks for stopping by~ This is the 5th consecutive year I’ve continued the tradition of reading (at least) a book a week! I stopped book counting this year to stay more aligned with the practice of enjoying books vs. quantifying them. I’ve continued Virtual Book Club (hovering around 100 members on a rolling…
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Review: On the Calculation of Volume (IV)
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 See what happens when a bunch of people all get stuck on November 18th. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “It is hard to know where something ends and where something begins. Or someone. Where a person starts or stops. Where the next begins.” “Perhaps that’s how it is: We are guests and…
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Review: Near to the Wild Heart
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Girl describes transition from childhood to loveless marriage through existentialist vignettes. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “I can’t say who I am. that is to say, I know it all too well, but I can’t say it. More than anything, I’m afraid to say it, because the moment I try to speak…
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Review: Transcription
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Writer travels to interview mentally declining mentor in Providence during COVID; the resulting interview is constructed from memory in the absence of his phone. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “Yes, but you are recording?…Otherwise we repeat ourselves and it grows unnatural. We will sound like bad actors. Even the transcript will show…
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Review: The Safekeep
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Hot, (hungry, horny) girl summer in a house with a stolen secret. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “She had held a pear in her hand and she had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the…
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Review: The Passion According to G.H.
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Rich lady finds a cockroach in the maid’s room and then spirals for the rest of the book about nothingness. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “How could I explain that my greatest fear is precisely of: being? and yet there is no other way. How can I explain that my greatest fear…
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Review: The Elephant Whisperer
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Ordinary man develops extraordinary bond with herd of wild elephants on his Thula Thula Game Reserve in Zululand. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “…the essence of communicating with any animal…is not so much the reach as the acknowledgement…If you are not signalling to them that their communication has arrived with you then…
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Review: A Breath of Life
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Existentialist dialogue between a male author and Angela Pralini, a character that he creates. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “The act of writing is the inevitable result of my being alive. I lost sight of myself so long ago that I’m hesitant to try to find myself. I’m afraid to begin.” “…you…
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Review The Housemaid
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 slutty cinderella x smut x #metoo x many plot twists Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “He has no idea this is just the beginning.”
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Review: Upstream
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 A meandering trail of Mary Oliver’s (one of my most beloved poets!) thoughts on nature, literary influences, and how we can show up softly, authentically, and purposefully in our creative pursuits. Notes/Thoughts📝 “I saw the difference between doing nothing, or doing a little, and the redemptive act of true…
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Review: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Part memoir, part historical documentation, Khalidi delivers the catastrophic blows of colonization and erasure attempted by the Goliath (Israel) on the Palestinian peoples, through six excruciating declarations of war from 1917 to 2007. (Spoiler: Palestine remains “David” in present-day) Notes/Thoughts/Questions📝 “Quotes”🗣 “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right…
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