Anaclara Chavez
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“Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.”
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“Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
― The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928
“I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.”
― The Pargiters
― The Pargiters
“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries.”
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Anaclara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Anaclara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Classics, Crime, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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