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Fredrik’s 2022 Year in Books
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This book has, for me, an essential and rare quality: it made me feel less crazy. Its subtitle, How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates That Affect Them Most, places it directly in my wheelhouse, expressin
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"I love memoirs and I especially love memoirs about troubled young women. This one was like a roller coaster, but not the kind you want to go on again and again because for every great turn or dip there were a half-dozen moments where you just want to"
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"on identity, legacy, love. postmodern in a good way. philosophical but not annoying. kundera’s observations are gold "
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| Let's set aside the fact, mentioned by other reviewers, that study after study has shown that when it comes to predicting life success, you'd rather be naturally smart than "gritty." And let's further set aside evidence that grit is in fact heritable ...more | |
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| One of the things I was forever doing as an adolescent reader was consuming huge volumes of books from certain series (Dragonlance was a big one) without stopping to ask myself if I really enjoyed it. I read a bunch of Terry Pratchett's Discworld boo ...more | |
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| Oral histories can be good places for writers to hide; it's always someone else's voice. So you have to be really, really good at shaping, pruning, structuring. The subject matter here is great, and the authors have provoked a lot of good observation ...more | |
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“What has caused much strife in the autism community is the claim by some autistic self-advocates that they speak for the entire spectrum, even those whose profound cognitive impairments preclude self-advocacy.”
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On Tuesdays, she teaches a meditation class in the basement. It is open to the whole community, not just university people. I’ve noticed that Margot listens differently than I do. She pays attention, but leaves her own stories out of it. It’s slow tod ...more |
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“It’s a bitter irony of contemporary American life: it is in our most progressive spaces that we see the most social inequality. As the urban sociologist Richard Florida has demonstrated, those cities that are the most liberal—New York, San Francisco, Austin—also are home to the greatest income inequality and wealth segregation.”
― The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
― The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
― 1984
― 1984
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
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“The scene before her flattened, lost one of its dimensions, and the noise dribbled irrelevantly down its face. Something was coming. This moment, this very experience of it, seemed only the thinnest gauze. She sat in the audience thinking--someone here has cancer, someone has a broken heart, someone's soul is lost, someone feels naked and foreign, thinks they once knew the way but can't remember the way, feels stripped of armor and alone, there are people in this audience with broken bones, others whose bones will break sooner or later, people who've ruined their health, worshipped their own lives, spat on their dreams, turned their backs on their true beliefs, yes, yes, and all will be saved. All will be saved. All will be saved.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
“Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
