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Raluca’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Raluca’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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I feel exhausted. I know I will never be able to go to sleep.
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American Vacation. 12,000 Miles Into the Wild West
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Corporatistul
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2012
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Selfie în oglindă. Când femeia devine mamă
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2014
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Vacanță americană. 20.000 de km în vestul sălbatic
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Terapie prin scris
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Orasul din viata mea
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The Joy of Surprising Oneself
It is the first time in my adult life that even the thought of spring exhausts me. I have written so many praises of spring, all in a pleading voice, asking it to materialize from the remnants of winter and save me from a colorless and silent world. I have always craved life manifesting around…
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
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“I'd thought I was the eater, but America had been eating me the whole time, from within.”
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“Cherish your wilderness.”
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“The solution was to write my way out of the problem. That meant writing early in the morning, late at night, and on weekends. It meant carving out time, claiming it for myself. I thought: I will write this first book, and then maybe another after that. This is the thing I want to do.”
― I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
― I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
“There are plenty of reasons why I write. This is just one of them. The sense that I want to own something, own my work, own my creativity, own my name. It is perhaps not the purest reason, not truest of heart, for there is some ego attached to it. But it is real.”
― I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
― I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
“I'd been afraid I'd somehow been giving a life I hadn't deserved, but that's ridiculous. We don't deserve anything - not the suffering and not the golden light. It just comes.”
― These Precious Days: Essays
― These Precious Days: Essays
“I can't imagine what kind of work it would take to actually put the past in order.”
― These Precious Days: Essays
― These Precious Days: Essays
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