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The unsaid thing about funerals is that directly after the communal mourning for someone you love, after everyone is gone and the connected grief dispersed, comes a solitude beyond imagining. A great, gaping nothing where a whole person and
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“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the wealthy has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say no.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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Ali’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ali’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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272 friends
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114 books
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110 books
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1,348 books
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816 books
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107 friends
1,387 books
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139 friends
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