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Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
‘I’m afraid, Nora’ – he paused for a moment, about the time it takes to lift an axe into the air – ‘I’m going to have to let you go.’
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
anthropomorphically.”
Jessica Anya Blau • Mary Jane: A Novel
My father had not so much left us as completed, made visible, an absence that had been present among us all along.
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
John Updike’s The Centaur,
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Leigh’s elm, Jean’s ash, Emmett’s ironwood, and Adam’s maple, each made from identical green puffballs.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
The moral of his story was how you never know the size of hurt that’s in people’s hearts, or what they’re liable to do about it, given the chance.
Barbara Kingsolver • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
“I am not a pretty woman,” said Maud Martha. “If you married a pretty woman, you could be the father of pretty children. Envied by people. The father of beautiful children.” “But I don’t know,” said Paul. “Because my features aren’t fine. They aren’t regular. They’re heavy. They’re real Negro features. I’m light, or at least I can claim to be a sor
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