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Novelty is pleasure.
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You just have to find the balance.
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A place to blather on, and to see what's worth bothering over.
What I'm reading this month
- The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
- Binti, by Nnedi Okarafor
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Recommended to me
- Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore
- The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
- The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
- Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth
- The Rachel Papers, by Martin Amis
- Station 11, by Emily St.John Mandel
- Dig, by A. S. King
- Cry of the Kalahari, by Mark Owens and Delia Owens
- The One, by John Marrs
Blog Archive
Catch and Release, books too briefly held
- Sometimes you have to lie, by Louise Fitzhugh
- White Tears/Brown Scars, by Ruby Hamad
- Counternarratives, by John Keene
- Balck Wave, by Michelle Tea
- Dropping Ashes on the Buddha, Sungsan
- The Anatomy of a Movement, by Javier Cercas
- Men Without Women, by Haruki Murakami
- The Line Becomes a River, by Francisco Cantu
- Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed
- Rejection Proof, by Jia Jiang
- Mapping the Bones, by Jane Yolen
- The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilerson
- Depression-Free, Naturally, by Joan Mathews Larson
- Born a Crime, byTrevor Noah
- Mental Health for the Whole Child, by Scott M. Shannon, MD
- When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
- Neither Wolf nor Dog, by Kent Nerburn
- Designing Your Life, by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
- The Jewish-Japanese Sex and Cookbook an How to Raise Wolves, by Jack Douglas
- The Testing, by Joelle Charbonneau
- Bold, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
- All the Light We Can Not See, by Anthony Doerr
- The Man Who Folded Himself, by David Gerrold
- Will I ever be good enough by Karyl McBride
- **Sum fort Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
- Wiser, by Cass R. Sunstein and Reid Hastie
- The Art of Empathy. by Karla McLaren
- The Compass of Pleasure by David J. Linden
- The Myths of Creativity, by David Burkus
- Stars go Blue, by Laura Pritchett
- Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed
- The Third Ear, by Chris Lonsdale
- The Future and its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel
- Mating in Captivity
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About Me
- April
- Colorado, United States
- Musician, reader, storyteller, engineer by training, I'm a former-homeschooling mom of 3 young men. During the warm months we enjoy sailing, paddling, biking, hiking, and gardening. During the cold months we get cozy, enjoy hygge, and wait for more sun.
On my shelf
- Margaret Webster, Shakespeare Without Tears
- Folk Tales of the British Islands
- Jane Austen, Emma
- Frank Smith, The Book of Learning and Forgetting
- Forrest Church, So Help Me God
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