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On Twitter, where I spend more of my social media time these days (@BelleBoggs, that’s me), people have been posting early 2016/now photos that represent how they feel. I don’t have any kittenish photos of Mischief (RIP), but this sums up my mien, post-November 8:
Anyway! I am giving mostly books for Christmas presents. Here are some top picks:
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell. An exquisit
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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
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2016
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12 editions
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The Gulf
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2019
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7 editions
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Mattaponi Queen
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2010
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4 editions
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Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South
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2019
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For the Public Good: Forced Sterilization and the Fight for Compensation
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2013
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Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism
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Plant Pets: 27 Cool Houseplants to Grow and Love
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Leave No Child Inside
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The Art of Waiting
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Mattaponi Queen Publisher: Graywolf Press
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“The pregnant body suggests a story we think we know: health, love, happiness.”
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
“The life an infertile person seeks comes to her not by accident and not by fate but by hard-fought choices. How to put together the portfolio of photographs. How to answer at the home study. What clinic or doctor or procedure. Donor egg or donor sperm or donor embryo. Open or closed adoption. What country, what boxes to check or uncheck. What questions to ask, and ask again. When to start and when to stop. What to say when her child says, Tell me my story.”
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
“It is undignified to inject yourself with hormones designed to slow or enhance ovarian production. It is undignified to have your ovaries monitored by transvaginal ultrasound; to be sedated so that your eggs can be aspirated into a needle; to have your husband emerge sheepishly from a locked room with the “sample” that will be combined with your eggs under supervision of an embryologist. The grainy photo they hand you on transfer day, of your eight-celled embryo (which does not look remotely like a baby), is undignified, and so is all the waiting and despairing that follows.”
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
― The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
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