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Joy is Currently Reading

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The Six Loves of James I

by Gareth Russell (Goodreads Author)

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May 05, 2026 06:45AM

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An Anthropologist on Mars

by Oliver Sacks

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Book cover for The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783–1789

The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783–1789 by Edward J. Larson

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Prior to the Revolutionary War, Catholics were persecuted in every colony. They could not vote or hold public office anywhere—not even in Maryland, which was founded as a haven for Catholics, or in famously tolerant Rhode Island, where even ...more

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Joy’s Quotes

“I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it’s a shitshow.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“Get it? Gender is a country, a field of signifying roses you can walk through, or wear tucked behind your ear.

Eventually the flower wilts & you can pick another, or burn the field, or turn & run back across the tracks.

(from "Essay on the Theory of Motion")”
― Cameron Awkward-Rich, Transit

tags: gender, poetry

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“Every ending is an arbitrary one. Every ending is, from another angle, not really an ending.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy

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“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love—exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.”
― Moira Weigel, Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

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“It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.”
― John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

tags: inspirational-love

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