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Shreya
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Spotting the erasure of women at the movies (as characters, as actors, as auteurs, and as spectators) alerts you to their erasure in real life.
“If you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. I applied for jobs and turned up for seminars. Things went on.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Ordinary . . .” I mumbled. To be like others. To be ordinary without having experienced terrible ordeals. To go to school, graduate, and if lucky, go to college and get an okay job and meet a woman I like and get married and have kids . . . things like that. Put differently, to not stand out.”
― Almond
― Almond
“But books were different. They had lots of blanks. Blanks between words and even between lines. I could squeeze myself in there and sit, or walk, or scribble down my thoughts. It didn’t matter if I had no idea what the words meant. Turning the pages was half the battle.”
― Almond
― Almond
“I looked at dozens of apartments and when I entered the hallway of the one I moved into next I knew I could live there because it was cheap and the hallway was baby blue. My friends all told me it smelled as bad there as it did in the last one but I found a heads-up penny on the threshold”
― Bluets
― Bluets
Shreya’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shreya’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, Spirituality, and Thriller
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