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Kanita Carington-McDonald
is on page 157 of 280 of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives: great character development plus twists and turns that make this an exciting page turner and very difficult to put down! thoroughly enjoying this read!
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benightedly i gave this 4 stars i'm sorry/you are/yes/why did you give it 4 stars/i wanted it to be like Aof R/ poetry is never the same/as i'm learning mostly from the reviews i am too inexperienced to learn from the book itself/some of these poems a...more |
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The first book of mine that anyone wanted to publish. I love it, but far and away the most frequent comment I've gotten about it is that it has a lot of big words.
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I thought at first I would give this a 4, not just because I loved Autobiography of Red so much that it would be hard for this to live up to that, but also because it was extremely difficult even for someone like me who is used to reading surreal...
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jo
is on page 84 of 171 of Red Doc>: if you read one book of poetry in your life do not read this one.
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"oh, Dibs: In Search of Self is amazing. the relationship between the therapist and the child is certainly psychodynamic and absolutely gorgeous."
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“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin
― James Baldwin
“Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
“I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“The ability of anyone in the culture to support and honour gay kids may depend on an ability to name them as such, notwithstanding that many gay adults may never have been gay kids and some gay kids may not turn into gay adults.”
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet
― Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet
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