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“The joy of having been standardized was that you didn't need to think beyond a certain area. Like a death handled well, a box had been put around you, and within it you could feel safe.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“...that was the only function of music, to convey either nostalgia or longing, the same emotion in different tenses.”
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
― Oh Pure And Radiant Heart
“There was something out of kilter with his mother's happiness, as though a light had been switched on by a passing stranger, and left to illuminate an empty room.”
― The Green Road
― The Green Road
“Americans he found to be so outwardly happy all the time and superficially positive. To be indiscriminately happy seemed to him as much of a curse as to be indiscriminately sad.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
“The famed MRS degree, because in practice, a female brain is worth nothing. Four lobes of the cerebrum, and I have sometimes imagined one of mine labeled RAGE.”
― Joan Is Okay
― Joan Is Okay
readers advisory for all
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life's too short to read crappy books. this is why readers' advisory exists. feel free to join if you are looking for "a book like____" or "a book tha ...more
Dylanists
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— last activity Jul 18, 2019 04:25PM
For Bob Dylan fans interested in understanding and discussing the literary merits of his work.
Bleak House
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— last activity Jun 05, 2013 08:06AM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read Charles Dickens' Bleak House. The read will take place February 2013-April 2013, but t ...more
Tournament of Books
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This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
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