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Educated
The Glass Castle
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Crying in H Mart
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Becoming
Eat, Pray, Love
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Bossypants
Night
When Breath Becomes Air
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Woman in Me
Yes Please
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerBury Me Standing by Isabel FonsecaThe Longest Way Home by Andrew McCarthyThe Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel EhrlichTracks by Robyn Davidson
Itchy Bone Marrow
15 books — 4 voters

Rayne Constantine
“ The receptionist is confused. "That was quick," she observes. My client booked a thirty-minute session. We used fifteen. "He tried to slap me on the arse while I was on top," I explain, "He slapped himself on the nutsack. ...more ”
― Rayne Constantine

Caroline Knapp
“ I once heard a woman who'd lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly missing from her world: the dog had introduced to her field of vision some previously unavailable hue, and without the dog, that color was gone. That seemed to capture the experience of loving a dog with eminent simplicity. I'd amend it only slightly and say that if we are open to what they have to give us, dogs can introduce us to several colors, with names like wildness and nurturance and trust and joy. ...more ”
― Caroline Knapp

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