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Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.
“Her heart, kept for so long in a little glass case, begins to open up, crack by crack.”
― The Moon Represents My Heart
― The Moon Represents My Heart
“The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I only had the morning to get my work done. I had to be really efficient. I'd let the others take the easy questions in class and wait to answer the hardest ones. I'm Asian and a woman, which shouldn't matter but did anyway. It was clear sometimes that no matter how hard I worked, I didn't qualify to be a member of the in club.”
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
― Searching for Sylvie Lee
“Compassion was a kind of magic; listening was at least half the task.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
“All the time she had been grasping the air with her hands, in an impassioned effort to express herself. 'Here was not just food, but an experience. It was all of Popisho, the smells and textures, it was - it was - all our love and our losses and our beauty, struggles, history, our childhoods ... it was perfect, it was perfect for me.”
― Popisho
― Popisho
Michelle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michelle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,622 books
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86 friends
1,378 books
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196 friends
931 books
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64 friends
2,804 books
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859 friends
746 books
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201 friends
959 books
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307 friends
775 books
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724 friends
411 books
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30 friends
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