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“I'd be content if I could ever make anybody consider the grand, illuminated procession of which they are a part: the larger story of their cultures, legacies, and dreams. Too often we see each other in instrumental terms, as opposed to Kant's ideal of seeing each human being in light of his or her intrinsic value.”
― Dear Students: Reading, Writing, and the Art of Smelling Books
― Dear Students: Reading, Writing, and the Art of Smelling Books
“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19”
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“See yourself not as the protagonist of your own heroic journey but instead as a collaborator in a massive, sprawling human epic.”
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“To William H. Gass's argument, "To have written an autobiography is already to have made yourself a monster," I say that refusing to write your story can make you into a monster. Or perhaps more accurately, we are already monsters. And to deny the monstrous is to deny its beauty, its meaning, and its devastation.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
“Knee-jerk bias backed by flimsy logic and pseudoscience has always been a preferred disguise of our national prejudices”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
Bri’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Bri’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, and Religion
Polls voted on by Bri
Lists liked by Bri
