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Depression doesn’t cause a 103-degree fever or a visible rash; the symptoms are psychological and therefore harder to conceive of as medical in nature. For many who live with it, the greatest obstacles on the road to recovery are family and
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“Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer." -Rose”
― Brooklyn
― Brooklyn

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
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“Thanks! Are you feeling okay? You look pale. I’m fine—I always look like this. Like a drowned rat in sweatpants.”
― Eliza and Her Monsters
― Eliza and Her Monsters

“It was hard to decide on a literature course. Everything the professors said seemed to be somehow beside the point. You wanted to know why Anna had to die, and instead they told you that 19th century Russian landowners felt conflicted about whether they were really a part of Europe. The implication was that it was somehow naive to want to talk about anything interesting, or to think that you would ever know anything important.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot

Hello! This is a book club, hosted by four Asian book reviewers, dedicated to boosting marginalized voices and celebrating diverse books, while always ...more

Discover and recommend more feminist reads here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/96419.The_Feminist_Orchestra_Potential_Reading_List We're also o ...more

This is a book club where we do read alongs challenges and celebrate local libraries and everything they do!
Ashwini’s 2020 Year in Books
Take a look at Ashwini’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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