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…

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…

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…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Unconventional love story of a celebrated graffiti artist in 70/80’s New York who burns out on his stairway to fame from a heroin overdose. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Think My Brilliant Friend en France OR if you haven’t read it…this is the story of girlhood, growing pains, and the importance of fictions in a cold, hard world. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 The world has no use for who we are and what we know. A story has to be…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Based on the true coming-of-age story, Betty Carpenter is born in 1954 rural Ohio to her white mother and Cherokee father; she navigates life on the social fringes of mixed heritage and poverty. https://www.tiffanymcdaniel.com/the-real-betty Notes/Thoughts📝 Questions “Quotes”🗣 Times will never be the same, so we give time another beautiful…

Book Specs 📖 One sentence Synopsis🔖 A young man and philosopher engage in an intellectual conversation about the question of happiness and how we can obtain it using Alderian psychology. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 To feel lonely, we need other people. that is to say, it is only in social contexts that a person becomes an individual…