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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)

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read in January 2024

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shib said: " i was a little unsure how i’d feel about this book during the first half, but by the end it earned all 5 of its stars, and a place in my top 3 books of all time. every word in this book is intentional. the structure is so complex to execute, but roy ...more "

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"reading this a second time KNOWING what happens alr makes roy’s writing even more genius. the foreshadowing, the genius of the timeline, the ambiguity of everything. top 2 favorite book of all time tbh." — Mar 15, 2025 08:41AM

Mar 27, 2025 09:46AM · see review

shib’s Notes & Highlights

Boulder by Eva Baltasar

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The cold feels peculiar. It’s possible I’ve drunk some of it myself, since I can feel it thrashing and bucking under my skin, and also deeper inside, in the arches between each organ.

shib’s Quotes

“It was everything that made me want to be a sun, the only thing I knew that had no shadow.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: ocean-vuong, ocean-vuong-quotes, on-earth-we-re-briefly-gorgeous, shadow, sun

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“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: art, humanity, sadness

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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

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