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Heather’s 2025 Year in Books
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I’m Autistic, and Autism Doesn’t Exist
Quick piece of advice: don’t read a book debunking the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) a month after you’ve been diagnosed with autism. It’s like researching systemic religious abuse right after your baptism. The book in question is Sarah Fay’s Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses. Fay was diagnosed with anorexia …
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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The book's artistry: five stars. Truly gorgeous writing and structure. Her exploration of identity through POV and use of pronouns is masterful. The book's moral imagination: two stars. (Though for those who like darker endings, this book may complete ...more |
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“It’s fashionable these days to pooh-pooh the Golden Age crime novel as trivial and unrealistic, but that was not the case at all. It was their stand against chaos. The conflicts were intimate, rather than global, and justice, order and retribution always prevailed. They desperately needed that reassurance. Did you know that Britain lost nearly a third of its young men between 1914 and 1918? Yet that war didn’t physically threaten us in the same way as the next—it stayed safely on the European Front.”
― Leave the Grave Green
― Leave the Grave Green
“But if you read Christie or Allingham or Sayers, the detective always got his man. And you’ll notice that the detective always operated outside the system—the stories expressed a comforting belief in the validity of individual action.”
― Leave the Grave Green
― Leave the Grave Green