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"“The Nine Curves River” by R. F. Kuang - 3.5/5

This was pretty well written but the one thing that held it back was that the characters felt a little depthless and more just archetypes. Like, wow older woman who’s jealous of the younger girl who’s extremely beautiful? Hmm, now where have I heard that before…"
Nov 10, 2024 09:20AM

 
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Susan Abulhawa
“Abandoning the imposition of a calendar helped me understand that time isn’t real; it has no logic in the absence of hope or anticipation. The Cube is thus devoid of time. It contains, instead, a yawning stretch of something unnamed, without present, future, or past, which I fill with imagined or remembered life.”
Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

“Sleep deprivation even impacts DNA and learning-related genes in the brain involved in memory-making. Was that why other mothers didn’t talk about the reality of early motherhood or childbirth? Because they hadn’t made the memories?”
Lucy Jones, Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Cat Sebastian
“Martin snorted. It shouldn’t be funny. There was nothing funny about what happened to Will, and only in his darker moods did Martin find much humor in his own predicament. But still he was laughing, and when he looked over, saw that Will was smiling, one hand over his mouth. It felt like —he couldn’t think of anything less theatrical than miracle—that they were standing here, alive, relatively well in mind and body, and laughing about everything that had happened.”
Cat Sebastian, Two Rogues Make a Right

“Perhaps the cultural obsession with ‘natural’ birth reflects the extent of our detachment from our bodies and from the Earth. We are so disconnected from the rest of the natural world that we don’t know what ‘nature’ is: bodies failing, cuckoos pushing eggs out of nests, a weirdly small human pelvis and a big infant head, illness and disease, shit and blood, ticks and cockroaches. ‘Natural childbirth’ in the ‘natural world’ often ends in infant or maternal death. ‘Natural’ childbirth can end in clitoral tears, sepsis, rectoceles, fistulas and psychosis.”
Lucy Jones, Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

“When my patients ask me what mental health means, here’s what I tell them: Mental health doesn’t involve the aim of eradicating uncomfortable emotions and life stressors. Rather, mental health involves practicing healthy ways to roll with, and grow from, life’s punches. It involves a state of mental functioning in which a person can experience productivity, satisfied relationships, meaning and purpose, high quality of life and possess the ability to cope with adversity.”
Jonathan N. Stea, Mind the Science: Saving your Mental Health from the Wellness Industry

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