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Ella McMahan
Meditations for Mortals
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this book (and the first one, 4,000 weeks) is seriously rocking my whole world
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15w
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Matrix by Lauren Groff
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Gay nuns essentially create their own society and it’s less the gayness/love that’s forbidden and more that they’re just really doing their own thing in general that’s forbidden. It is excellllllent.
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18w
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Henry
Biography of X
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Obsessed with this book and really enjoyed listening to interviews with the author after I finished reading it - one of my recent faves
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19w
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E_C_B
everything is tuberculosis
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20w
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birnam wood
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absolutely obsessed with this novel as a parable of modern society, climate, and power struggles. it completely bowled me over the first time I read it.
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20w
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the world ending fire
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I often think about these essays and especially about Berry’s catastrophic pond that he built with expert advice, in an attempt to be ecologically responsible on the farmland that he was restoring, that ended up being a major calamity for him. I think about how much we try to have control over things, and how insignificant we are to nature; and at the same time, one of Berry’s major tenets of thought is that we can’t abdicate responsibility even in the absence of individual control. We each are responsible for our actions and that’s not mutually exclusive from collective action. Super interesting and discussion-worthy.
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20w
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keeping house while drowning
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this is the book my ADHD-having wife recommends to everyone on this topic! the author also has a podcast called Struggle Care if a book doesn’t feel reasonable rn
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20w
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the husbands
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soooo fun, the kind of book you look forward to & think about longingly when you’re not reading it because it’s so compelling and enjoyable.
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20w
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mobility
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honestly gave me climate change depression but also motivated me to explore different ways of living life?
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20w
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we own the future
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essays about socialism in America across many different themes and topics (including some I didn’t see coming, like sports).
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20w
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the library at mount char
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truly bizarre and fun! gritty strange greek mythology-y magic in the real world? not my usual genre AT ALL but it’s completely engrossing.
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20w
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it was vulgar and it was beautiful
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fascinating and thoughtful micro-history of art activism during the AIDS pandemic… a must-read if you care about public health, social movements, queer history, protest art, etc.
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20w
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4000 weeks
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4,000 weeks doesn’t feel like enough time but it’s all we’ve got! this really shook me up and I think about it when I have to make big decisions about how I’m spending time on earth
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20w
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neopolitan quartet
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as good as they say. Ferrante has a way of illustrating how people actually are in real life that is so subtle and almost painful in its accuracy. also slightly related: it gives me so much hope that her translator, Ann Goldstein, acquired Italian as a second language, how cool is that
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20w
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housekeeping
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“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
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20w
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this is how they tell me the world ends
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scary as hell. will help you understand more about geopolitics and also realize how little you know about geopolitics. I read this book several years ago and think about it probably multiple times a month still.
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