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Jill is Currently Reading

Jill is currently reading

In the Dream House

by Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: a-bit-pretentious, hot-girl-hour, queer-mess, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in July 2023

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Jill said: " ~5 stars~

Where to start! This book is my best read so far and truly has one of the most interesting structure I've ever read.

Machado plays with fiction and nonfiction elements alike and manages to make a nonfictional story about her abuse very real ...more "

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(page 205 of 251)
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Jul 15, 2023 01:29AM · see review

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All About Love: New Visions

by bell hooks

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Beautiful World, Where Are You

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2023-must-reads, stop-procrastinating-and-read-it, currently-reading

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Jill’s Quotes

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery

1456 likes

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

tags: misattributed-to-jane-austen

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“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: classics, love

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“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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