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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: 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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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…
Since you’re here,
you might as well…