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Alexandrea Bořèk
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Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

I’m a writer, reader, reviewer. I’m just trying to figure life out.

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Past Read: Wintering, Katherine May
Current Read: The Book of Eve, Carmen Boullosa
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# 7 of 2024 is:
Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti
Published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social

This book hurt me while it healed me, and again, and again. Heti is powerful in her recounting of what it is to be human and more than. It feels like talking to a friend, a wise mentor, or both.
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Photo of the novel Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti “Are you sad to be living in the first draft—shoddily made, rushed, exuberant, malformed? No, you are proud to be strong enough to be living here now, one of God’s expendable soldiers in the first draft of the world. There is some pride in having been created to make a better world come. There is some pride inn being the ones who were made to be thrown out.” Page 151 quotation of Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti
January 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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January 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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And one more picture makes 14
January 17, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I’m half a month late, but lupus flare-ups “demand to be felt” (thanks @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social)

I only managed 14 books in 24, but life is hard and I’m still proud of that. Top 7 list to follow.

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January 17, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18:
Averno, Louise Glück

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December 31, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17:
Lord of the Flies, William Golding

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December 27, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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Fellow bookish people of blue sky—

There are few things I enjoy more than arranging and rearranging my books on their bookshelves, but I’m running out of ideas on how to switch things up;

How do you all like to orient your books in their respective spaces?

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December 15, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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December 13, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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December 13, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16:
Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami

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A picture of the book Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami, published by Europa, seen next to a stuffed plushie ovary, which was gifted to me after I had to have one of mine unexpectedly removed because it became dead and enveloped by a large tumor due to endometriosis.
December 13, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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December 13, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15:
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

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December 12, 2024 at 3:07 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14:
The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd

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December 11, 2024 at 5:08 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13:
William Blake

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December 10, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12:
Autumn, Ali Smith

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December 9, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12:
Catch-22, Joseph Heller

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December 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11:
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

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December 7, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10:
Simulacra and Simulation, Jean Baudrillard

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December 6, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 9:
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin

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December 4, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 8:
Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke

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December 1, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Educated me in an empathy that can’t be unlearned. Everyone is connected, in ways known and unknown. History as present—art and music as the voice of a people who won’t be silenced. Fictional characters convey this very real, human, tragedy.
4.5/5 ⭐️

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Picture of I Will Die in a Foreign Land Authored by Kalani Pickhart Published by Two Dollar Radio
December 1, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 7:
How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti

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November 30, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 6:
Paradise Lost, John Milton.

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November 30, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 5:
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion

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November 28, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 4:
Deenie, Judy Blume

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November 28, 2024 at 2:46 AM