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“Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.”
― Not My Father's Son
― Not My Father's Son
“When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt. When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone.”
― I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
― I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
“In the driveway of the old house,I released my biological family from my unreasonable expectations of how much we could possibly be to one another. How much I expected them to teach me.Do for me. And this freed them to be what they actually are to me. Which is plenty”
― The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
― The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
“I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her children, why that man has a dreamy, downcast look. A human being is not a lock and the past is not a key.”
― The Hero of This Book
― The Hero of This Book
“At your next book club meeting, picture me sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes on your preferences. Imagine the next day you get an email from me trying to sell you a new grill — or a book — or accessories for your Glock. That's the Amazon/Goodreads deal. It's appalling. But everywhere in the press, you'll read about the genius of Amazon."
(Michael Herrmann and the booksellers of Gibson's)”
― Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
(Michael Herrmann and the booksellers of Gibson's)”
― Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
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Asta’s 2025 Year in Books
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105 friends
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424 books
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Biography, Book Club, Contemporary, Ebooks, Fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Politics, and Design
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