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“The joy of having been standardized was that you didn't need to think beyond a certain area. Like a death handled well, a box had been put around you, and within it you could feel safe.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“The heart of the difference between grief as we imagine it and grief as it is: the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite of meaning, the relentless succession of moments during which we will confront the experience of meaninglessness itself.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“...that was the only function of music, to convey either nostalgia or longing, the same emotion in different tenses.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“Maybe it was not fear of death that motivated the people who were most alive, she thought, but some other force, say a capacity for delight.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
readers advisory for all
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life's too short to read crappy books. this is why readers' advisory exists. feel free to join if you are looking for "a book like____" or "a book tha ...more
Dylanists
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— last activity Jul 18, 2019 04:25PM
For Bob Dylan fans interested in understanding and discussing the literary merits of his work.
Bleak House
— 71 members
— last activity Jun 05, 2013 08:06AM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The read will take place February 2013-April 2013, but t ...more
Tournament of Books
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This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
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