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An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder (A Bainbridge Island Mystery Book 1)

by Lynn Cahoon (Goodreads Author)

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Confessions of an Amateur Sleuth (A Bainbridge Island Mystery Book 2)

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Swimming Lessons

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Book cover for This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America

This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins

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It is the conundrum of being doubly subjugated: You are both invisible and hypervisible, stripped of humanity. And if you are not acknowledged at all, even in the most vulgar of ways, then do you still have a body? Are you still a woman ...more

From other reviews I gather that some people found passages like this problematic or confusing. But I think this is a perfectly reasonable paradox, it’s a thing that I feel very often. I spend all of my time feeling unseen, wanting to go unnoticed but at the same time broken-hearted at being completely invisible to people.

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Amanda’s Quotes

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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