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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

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"This is not a murder mystery. It is a thoughtful, often funny, meandering reflection on aging, human's impact on nature, and borders.It is a disservice to the book that the publishers tried to sell it, shamelessly, as a murder mystery. It creates an expectation when you start reading that is never fulfilled and it biases the experience, which is a shame. Leave that expectation behind and you'll be rewarded." — Dec 21, 2025 08:37AM

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Irenka’s Quotes

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: love

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“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn't go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It's going to break your heart. Don't let this happen.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: life, regret

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