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King Sorrow

by Joe Hill (Goodreads Author)

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"started this yesterday and i am SO in to it. i love the characters and their dynamics <3" — Aug 27, 2026 12:36PM

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The Blue Food Cookbook: Delicious Seafood Recipes for a Sustainable Future (A Comprehensive Guide, from Buying and Preparing to Cooking Delicious Nutritious Blue Food Recipes)

by Andrew Zimmern

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

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"in honor of Tony releasing in theatres this week, a re-read of an old favorite. bourdain forever <3" — Aug 21, 2026 02:57PM

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion

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Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways. Here is where they are trying to find a new life style, trying to find it in the only places they ...more

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“The effort of putting words to my experiences, of trying to describe things as accurately as possible, felt like it was saving my life. One sentence at a time, I was writing my way to an understanding and a grace I could not otherwise reach. I breathed power into a new life for myself and also slowly started to make sense of what I'd never been able to before.”
― Laura McKowen, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

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“I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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