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Fat Man and Little Boy were decorated with rampaging tuskers, a fact deeply screwed up on several counts.
“It’s an authentic and elevating response to the problem of being alive in a deeply flawed yet stubbornly beautiful world.”
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
“Marisol. Do not ask me to choose between who I love and who I am. I fear it would not reflect well on either one of us.”
― Next Year in Havana
― Next Year in Havana
“A person might join a site to look at pictures of her nephew and five years later believe in a flat earth.”
― No One Is Talking About This
― No One Is Talking About This
“These berries belong to me,” she said, “not to you. I don’t want to see you kids eating my berries.” I knew the difference: In the fields behind my house, the berries belonged to themselves. At this lady’s roadside stand, she sold them for sixty cents a quart.”
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
― Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
“whether you long to ease the pain of your ancestors, or for a world in which life could survive without consuming other life; whether you yearn for a lost person, an unborn child, the fountain of youth, or unconditional love: These are all manifestations of the same great ache.”
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
― Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
111 books
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26 friends
315 books
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51 friends
357 books
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40 friends
377 books
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57 friends
574 books
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19 friends
751 books
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103 friends
473 books
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7 friends
172 books
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154 friends
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