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Char is Currently Reading

Char is currently reading

What My Bones Know

by Stephanie Foo (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2024-audiobooks, memoir, non-fiction, psychology, currently-reading

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read in April 2024

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

bookshelves: dystopia, fiction, science-fiction, favorites, currently-reading

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read in November 2020

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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

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“The details are boring and some of them are just mine, but at the end of it, we were a couple again. I don't even think of it as getting back together because it didn't feel like a reconvening of the old relationship. It was a new one.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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“If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect

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“Dominique guessed her own sexual preferences from puberty, wisely kept them to herself, unsure how her friends or family would react, not wanting to be a social outcast

she tried boys a couple of times

they enjoyed it

she endured it”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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“We urge you to regard with great skepticism any sentence that begins 'Everybody knows...' or 'Common sense tells us...' Often, these phrases are signposts for cultural belief systems that may be antisexual, monogamy-centrist, and/or codependent.”
― Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

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“How could this kind of contentment coexist with the mess in my head? How could this love coexist with the desire for a whole other love? Shouldn't they cancel each other out? I had watched my husband and child sleep, choked with feeling. I wanted to press a woman against a wall with the length of my body--a woman who looks like a boy--and fuck her. Does one life preclude another? I wanted both. Two lives in this body. Running alongside each other in parallel, like ski tracks.”
― Molly Wizenberg, The Fixed Stars

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