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Joy is Currently Reading

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This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

by John Darnielle (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 11, 2026 12:21PM

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A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation

by Tal McThenia

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Mar 05, 2026 04:45PM

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An Anthropologist on Mars

by Oliver Sacks

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025, 2026, owned, non-fiction, anthology, psychology, health-and-illness

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Jan 09, 2026 05:42PM

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Book cover for I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

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Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.

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“It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.”
― John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

tags: inspirational-love

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“My favorite kind of science fiction is post-apocalyptic dystopia. But I just heard at the bar that genre is going out of style. Frankly, that’s not a future I want to live in.”
― John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

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“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love—exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“Every ending is an arbitrary one. Every ending is, from another angle, not really an ending.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

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“I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it’s a shitshow.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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