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The Covenant of Water

by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

by Cal Newport

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A Flower Traveled in My Blood

by Haley Cohen Gilliland (Goodreads Author)

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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

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“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless

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“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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“White is not an origin. It’s a mental construct of privilege.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

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“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.”
― Julius Lester

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