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I'm so glad to be back to reading this collection! Yvette and Rose are young adult sisters living with their single mother. The story begins with preparing for a hurricane, an almost mundane thing for which they've been thr ...more "

“Before I am your daughter,
your sister,
your aunt, niece, or cousin,
I am my own person,
and I will not set fire to myself
to keep you warm.”
―
your sister,
your aunt, niece, or cousin,
I am my own person,
and I will not set fire to myself
to keep you warm.”
―

“I prefer to speak in metaphor: That way, no logic can trap me, and no rule can bind me, and no fact can limit me or decide for me what’s possible.”
― Chouette
― Chouette
“I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician”
― How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance
― How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“Now, as far as I was concerned, there are two ways of living, and because we're on a ball in space these were more or less exactly poles apart. The first, accept the world as it is. The world is concrete and considerable, with beauties and flaws both, and both immense, profound and perplexing, and if you can take it as it is and for what it is you'll all but guarantee an easier path, because it's a given that acceptance is one of the keys to any kind of contentment. The second, that acceptance is surrender, that there's a place for it, but that place is somewhere just before your last breath where you say "All right then, I have tried" and accept that you have lived and loved as best you could, have pushed against every wall, stood up after every disappointment, and until that last moment, you shouldn't accept anything, you should make things better.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains?”
“Nature remains.”
― Specimen Days
“Nature remains.”
― Specimen Days

The purpose of this group is to read and discuss one short story a week (every two weeks in July and August) from an anthology. The current one is a c ...more

Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more

On 20 September 2024, Goodreads removed the option for email notifications, without even bothering to tell users (unless they looked at the "help" pag ...more

Buddy read of Augustus - John Williams

Welcome! Here poetry lovers unite to share and discuss a poem a week, making our own rolling anthology you might say. Once a week, on Saturday, a me ...more
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