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“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
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“Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to silence, and he was even more delighted when those guesses led to new problems that took us beyond the original one. He had a special feeling for what he called the "correct miscalculation," for he believed that mistakes were often as revealing as the right answers.”
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
“It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, and, not just in Marin, but in the whole region, in the Bay Area, and in many other places too, places both near and far, the apocalypse appeared to have arrived and yet it was not apocalyptic, which is to say that while the changes were jarring they were not the end, and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
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Kathy’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Book Club, Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, Travel, Young-adult, psychological-thriller, nature, family, childrens-classics, humor, and irish-literature
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