Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Fifteen year old Istvan’s sexual affair with an older married woman is the beginning of his tumultuous life. Notes/Thoughts📝 “He has this feeling, with women, that it’s hard to have an experience that feels entirely new, that doesn’t feel like something that has already happened, and will probably happen…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Eight interviews with American teenagers about navigating life as non-binary/transgender. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “When you listen to stories and hear them, it can move people to action…We know ourselves better than anyone else. We have stories that we want to tell. We should tell them.” “The beautiful thing about transgender…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 A series of philosophically political essays from the “War on Terror” to the consumerist society, and how we can combat feelings of despair using artistic expression. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 ” Despair without fear, without resignation, without a sense of defeat, makes for a stance towards the world…” “Our poems like…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Twenty-two vignettes of six-year old Sophie spending summer with her Grandmother on an island in the Gulf of Finland. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “There is nothing sentimental about this world. Like the weather, this world asks only to be acknowledged. There is nothing comforting about it, and yet if you are…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 A hypnotic and chaotic narrative about a widowed painter in Norway that finds his doppelgänger and goes on a journey of spiritual self-discovery. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “It’s always, always the darkest part of the picture that shines the most, and I think that that might be because it’s in the…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Former Nickelodeon child actor reveals her abusive relationship with her mom. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. “Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with.” Because…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Yiyun Li shares the tragic loss of her sons to suicide. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “Fiction, one suspects, is tamer than life. “ “And yet life is still to be lived, inside tragedies, outside tragedies, and despite tragedies.” “The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; / not in silence, but…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Elena, a mother with advanced Parkinson’s, investigates her daughter’s suicide. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “She doesn’t have a timetable. Her time is measured in pills.” “Never isn’t a word hat applies to our species, there are so many things that we think applies to our species, there are so many things…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Chang revisits the fragmentary memories of childhood and cultural influences (fashion, cinema, Peking Opera, etc. ) that shaped her life as a woman and writer in war time Shanghai and Hong Kong. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “For people who are too shy to speak, clothes are a kind of language, a…

Book Specs 📖 One Sentence Synopsis🔖 Non clout chasing relationship advice from plants and living beings via indigenous lens. Notes/Thoughts📝 “Quotes”🗣 “Leave this place better than you found it.” “The land knows you even when you are lost.” “The questions scientists raised were not “Who are you? but What is it?” No one asked the…