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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

“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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“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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“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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