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Some White people do not identify as White for the same reason they identify as not-racist: to avoid reckoning with the ways that Whiteness—even as a construction and mirage—has informed their notions of America and identity and offered
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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion

“Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale

“She informed me, matter-of-factly, that she was old enough to know the difference between intriguing and fucked up. "You should go for younger women," she advised me. "They can't always tell.”
― In the Woods
― In the Woods

“…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.”
― Little Women
― Little Women

Books & Brews is the Somerville Public Library's social book club for readers in their 20's, 30's, and the young at heart. We meet every third Tuesday ...more

An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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