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My mother never liked to see me idle. Sometimes she said I was like my father, who could go off to a place in his head and exist without eating. There were whole days when a curious, detached look took over his usual worried expression and
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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
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“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean — in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Lu’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lu’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
339 books
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12 friends
329 books
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6 friends
1,212 books
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231 friends
583 books
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57 friends
281 books
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98 friends
1,215 books
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239 friends
1,563 books
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107 friends
268 books
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98 friends
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