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“If I seem cagey, it is because I am not a liar and hate being considered one, due to an accident of craft. But also, if I tell you the idea, and the description disappoints you, the novel can be lost.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“For the novelists in your life I have heard it said that it is better if you pretend they do something else and that it is always attended to, and doesn’t need your attention in the slightest. And then when asked for support, muster an enormous enthusiasm.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“A GOOD PLACE TO begin a garden is to undo whatever appear to be the clear mistakes of previous owners.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“The most popular sour cherry is the Montmorency. Studies show that Montmorency cherries can reduce pain and inflammation, including pain caused by strenuous exercise. In 2009, a group of fifty-seven male and female runners took part in a study conducted by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine. The participants were scheduled to compete in Oregon’s Hood to Coast Relay race, a challenging two-hundred-mile course that traverses two mountain ranges. The runners in one group drank two glasses of Montmorency cherry juice—one before the race began and one during the race. The volunteers in the other group consumed an equal amount of a cherry-flavored drink. When the race was over, the runners who drank the real cherry juice reported significantly less pain.”
― Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health
― Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health
“Carpe diem' doesn't mean seize the day--it means something gentler and more sensible. 'Carpe diem' means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem," if my school Latin servies. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things--so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant--pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it. That's not the kind of man that Horace was.”
― The Anthologist
― The Anthologist
Rachael’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
915 books
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185 friends
108 books
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169 friends
1,154 books
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90 friends
2,332 books
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137 friends
658 books
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42 friends
2,303 books
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40 friends
401 books
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85 friends
3,371 books
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84 friends
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