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Louisa’s favourite-novels shelf

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera

Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away by Christie Watson

Where Women Are Kings by Christie Watson

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Louisa’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (243)
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read‎ (439)
auto-biography-diary-memoir‎ (54)
favourite-novels‎ (30)
favourite-picture-books‎ (30)
mental-health‎ (28)
middle-grade-fiction‎ (28)
social-anthropology‎ (27)
politics‎ (26)
psychology‎ (26)
america‎ (24)

relationships‎ (21)
south-asia‎ (20)
education‎ (19)
philosophy‎ (19)
children-s-classics‎ (16)
bookclub‎ (13)
young-adult‎ (13)
feminism‎ (12)
medicine‎ (12)
historical-fiction‎ (11)
walker-books‎ (11)
history‎ (10)

uk-wild‎ (9)
favourite-non-fiction‎ (8)
japan‎ (8)
social-policy‎ (8)
poetry‎ (7)
pregnancy‎ (7)
psychotherapy‎ (7)
child-development‎ (6)
travel-adventure‎ (6)
birth‎ (5)
immigration‎ (5)
new-york‎ (5)

plays‎ (5)
western-africa‎ (5)
buddhism‎ (4)
ireland‎ (4)
london‎ (4)
nigeria‎ (4)
parenting‎ (4)
science‎ (4)
scotland‎ (4)
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“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

(This quote is probably wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath)”
― Sylvia Plath

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“It feels powerful to him to put an experience down in words, like he's trapping it in a jar and it can never fully leave him.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

276 likes

“Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.”
― David Almond, My Name Is Mina

tags: words

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“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

tags: confusion, life, open, possibilities

1965 likes

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, After You'd Gone

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