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Mary’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Lost Art of Mixing (The School of Essential Ingredients, #2)

The Lost Art of Mixing (The School of Essential Ingredients, #2) by Erica Bauermeister

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Lillian’s love for her kitchen was the radiant gratitude of an artist for a space where imagination moves without obstacles, the small, quiet happiness of finding a home, even if the other people in it are passing through—maybe even a bit ...more

Against the Loveless World

by Susan Abulhawa

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Inheritors

by Asako Serizawa

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Mary’s Quotes

“History, too often, has been told from only certain perspectives. This is not good enough. History is a collective phenomenon. It can only be told through a chorus of voices. And that chorus must make room for new voices over time.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

tags: collective, history, perspective, voices

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“The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

tags: autumn, first-frost, lost-lake, sarah-addison-allen

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“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: life-lessons

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“There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

tags: love, trees

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