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Melody’s 2025 Year in Books
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I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU, ALRIGHT?! (People who are awesome have friends who are awesome.)
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This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
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If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World
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Johnny Appleseed & Other American Legends
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The Gingerbread Boy and Other First Tales
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Paul Bunyan and Other American Tall Tales
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Animal Tales: Raccoon, Bear and Coyote
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Issue 33: 10 Ways to Feel Cozier This Christmas
A few years ago I read a book about the Danish concept of hygge, which roughly translates to coziness or charm or, I don’t know, specialness. Hard to pin down and harder to say—aim for a Viking horn–like “HYOO-guh”—the concept nevertheless stayed with me for putting a name to a kind of cozy contentment I’d experienced before and kept trying to recapture, most notably at Christmas.
Hygge is th
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| Very helpful primer for any woman who grapples with shame or frustration about their appearance—which I think is all of us? | |
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| As long as Richard Osman keeps writing Thursday Murder Club books, I'm along for the (delightful, hilarious, poignant) ride. ...more | |
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| Most people want nonfiction that reads like a novel, but I love fiction like This Is Not About Us: so exquisitely observed and specific and rich that it feels 100% true. | |
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| Gossipy, name-droppy, and ridiculously 1-percenty (his life advice at the end is like "Don't put your Oscar in the bathoom")—but on the upside, Graydon Carter's book is very fun, and I'm pretty sure I'm ready to run a magazine now. ...more | |
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| When I feel like I've grown weary of well-doing, this book was a great reminder that even our small efforts at helping can matter, particularly if we preserve the dignity and choice of those we're trying to serve. ...more | |
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| This was my first Anne Tyler after a long break, and a reminder of how good she is at ordinary people and their hapless, hopeful love stories. | |
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| I'm all about magical realism, and there was lots to like about this journey into Hell, but I'm marking it down for too many scholarly inside jokes, an unlikeable main character (Alice Law needs a therapist ASAP), and a narrative that hinged on peopl ...more | |
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| Yes, it's basically Jurassic Park for Godzillas, and yes, it was the popcorn movie novel I needed right now. ...more | |
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| A grueling, compulsively readable memoir of a woman whose husband just walks out on the family one day; she's privileged, yes, but she acknowledges that—and the pain is very real. ...more | |
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| A book of essays about the paradoxes implicit in following Jesus Christ that made me deeply wish I'd been friends with Kate Holbrook. ...more | |
“What could I do to feel happier living here? …
1. Walk more.
2. Buy local.
3. Get to know my neighbors.
4. Do fun stuff.
5. Explore nature.
6. Volunteer.
7. Eat local.
8. Become more political.
9. Create something new.
10. Stay loyal through hard times.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
1. Walk more.
2. Buy local.
3. Get to know my neighbors.
4. Do fun stuff.
5. Explore nature.
6. Volunteer.
7. Eat local.
8. Become more political.
9. Create something new.
10. Stay loyal through hard times.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“In a hypermobile society, uniformity passes for familiarity.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
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“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
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“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
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“Constructionism is the recognition, backed up by the last half century of brain research, that people don’t passively take in reality. Each person actively constructs their own perception of reality. That’s not to say there is not an objective reality out there. It’s to say that we have only subjective access to it. “The mind is its own place,” the poet John Milton wrote, “and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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