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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: Widow Basquiat
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”🗣
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Review: The Book of Goose
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…
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Review: Betty
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…
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Review: The Courage to be Disliked
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…
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Review: Minor Detail
Book Specs 📖 One sentence Synopsis🔖 Two part narrative based on the true story of the Nirim Affair, a 1949 gang rape and murder of a young Bedouin-Palestinian girl by the Israeli Defense Force , followed by a fictional account of a Palestinian woman who tries to investigate this incident. Notes/Thoughts📝 This will require a second…
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Review: Widow Cliquot
First book review on the blog! Woohoo~~🎊 This year’s goal is to review every book I read (excluding any graphic/audio books) for a deeper reading experience. The format will be refined as I continue this habit. Book Specs 📖 One sentence Synopsis🔖 Started from the bottom… or erm “affluent upper-middle-class-bourgeoisie-family”, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (the “Widow Clicquot”) cleverly…
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2024 in Book Quotes
Yo-ho! If you’re reading this, we made it to the end of the year! What an accomplishment it is to be alive 🥳 Just like last year, I’ve categorized all my 2024 reads into categories (includes at least one quote from each book). Hopefully you get enough of a teaser to pick up a book…
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2023 in Book Quotes
Oh hey there, I took at least one quote from every book I read this year and organized them into themes that made sense to me. Hope there’s at least one quote in here that inspires you to pick up a book:) Follow me on Goodreads here. Enjoy~
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Quotes
I’ve been thinking about why I’m obsessed with quotes. What is it about memorializing what people say and why am I always looking for pithy statements that capture a feeling? Is my obsession causing me to overlook other elements of writing…or is the reason for my obsession something deeper. I take words very seriously, through…
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