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Jeannette
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"Live. Hold out. Survive."

(from Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler)
December 29, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Currently...

📚 Reading: Zinn's A People's History of the United States / Butler's Parable of the Sower (both have been on my tbr list too long!)

🎧 Listening to: Moon Walker (discovered them today)

📺 Watching: Somebody Somewhere (heard it had a great ending which is rare so had to check it out)
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 AM
"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
December 2, 2024 at 12:28 AM
"That which inspires us to our greatest good is also the cause of our greatest evil."

Arcane, season 2
November 22, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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it's like a lot of people watched Children of Men and instead of seeing the film as an indictment of capitalist realism they thought, "oh, low birth rates, national decline, very scary, gotta do something."
November 17, 2024 at 10:08 PM
My history with nonfiction goes like this. Religious texts and parenting books till mid-30s. Works by philosophers, humanists, atheists till mid-40s (I deconverted). Then almost nothing but fiction for a decade and a half (I'm old) until this year. I've read six so far. They are...

#booksky
November 20, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Then I had to get this ornament because it matched the little tinsel tree, and Amy has named it Freddie the Yeti.

And yes we're decorating early because depression.
November 19, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Trying to find bits of joy where we can. My daughter Amy found this odd, little tinsel tree with colorful yarn pom poms and we love it.
November 19, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Toni Morrison has me thinking of "love covers a multitude of sins" in a completely different way.
November 19, 2024 at 1:32 AM