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Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
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Five Minute Love Stories
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This was a delightfully juicy, fun anthology of seven stories, with all or most authors being WOC. Loosely set around Valentine's Day, this set can be read and enjoyed at any time. Each story had something unique and intriguing about it. I think Afte ...more |
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3.5 Stars. I understand this was this author's first book, and I really love her TED talks and later works, but this one didn't gel as much for me. There was a lot of domestic violence, which was difficult to read through, and no real WHY explained. ...more | |
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Oh, I struggled to get into this book. Starting in the head of experienced Black Labor and Delivery Nurse Ruth Jefferson, by a white author. It felt icky, and also, Ruth came off as something of a goody two-shoes. And then I "met" white supremacist Tu ...more |
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"Overdone but effective portrayal of an African American nurse caught up in a maelstrom of racism and bureaucracy. Ruth Jefferson, widow of a war hero and mother of a bright college-bound son, has been working as a Labor & Delivery nurse for ov..."
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"I loved this book (as I LOVE every Jodi Picoult novel). Current culture theme. Great characters. Great writing. And always, a story twist at the end. At times, the book made me uncomfortable- which is a good thing!!
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"This book is amazing! I could not put it down. Make sure to read the authors note at the end. I have such
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Aaah, the glamour of working in the Pentagon, helping to create policy that saves the world - or is it, destroys it? Told in first person, Heather Reilly, PhD, is an expert on Afghanistan, hired to work on... NOT Afghanistan, because, reorg. Somethin ...more |
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4.5 stars. This book by the popular podcaster is mostly informational, with a small slice of autobiographical stories sprinkled in. The writing is chatty and fun, with chapters titled things like How to Slay at Solo Play (about masturbation) and The ...more | |
“If feeling yourself up had been an Olympic event, I'd have taken home the gold medal”
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“I've since learned that when you lose your same sex parent as a child, it's very common to believe that you, too, will die at the same age as your parent, or when your child is the same age you were. It's a kind of 'instinctive' knowledge, like knowing if you jump into your bed from far enough away, the monsters aren't allowed to grab your ankles.”
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
― Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll, and a Tiara
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
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“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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Thank you. :-) Looks like we have more than a few books in common.