Wren

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Wren.


It's OK That You'...
Wren is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Anne Enright
“What I wanted, more than anything, was some uninterrupted crying time. I had a screaming need to be alone. I did not say this to Lily, I told her I needed to write a book. Which, when you think about it, is probably code for the same thing.”
Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Angela  Chen
“In the desire to be respected, people become ableist and prejudiced, straining to present ourselves as happy and healthy when it should be fine to be ace and unhappy and unhealthy, like all the unhappy and unhealthy straight people out there.”
Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Virginia Sole-Smith
“The result: None of the kids, even the “sugar-sensitive” ones, showed any meaningful differences after following each diet. “Even when the intake exceeds typical dietary levels, neither dietary sucrose nor aspartame affects children’s behavior or cognitive function,” the researchers concluded. The “sugar high” had been officially debunked. The 1994 results have been replicated in several subsequent studies and yet—I’ve never attended a child’s birthday party where someone didn’t invoke the specter of the sugar high as soon as the cake is cut.”
Virginia Sole-Smith, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

Philip Pullman
“She gathered the little cards together with an automatic hand. That was the phrase that came to her, as if her hand were purely mechanical, not alive at all, as if the messages from her skin and her nerves were changes in the anbaric current along a copper wire, not anything conscious. With that vision of her body as something dead and mechanical came a sense of listless desolation. She felt not only as if she were dead now, but that she’d always been dead, and had only dreamed of being alive, and that there was no life in the dream either: it was only the meaningless and indifferent jostling of particles in her brain, and nothing more.
But that little chain of ideas provoked a spasm of reaction, and she thought, No! That’s a lie! That’s slander! I don’t believe it!
Except that she did believe it, just then, and it was killing her.”
Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth

Angela  Chen
“Well-meaning guides usually point out that sexual norms are too rigid and that everyone would be happier if we stopped worrying about having sex exactly like everyone else. However, almost no books go on to say that it’s okay if someone doesn’t want to have sex at all. Constrictions need to be loosened, but not too much. The underlying assumption is that sex in relationships is imperative and everything else—the amount of sex, the number of partners, the positions, the toys—follows from that axiom.”
Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

year in books
Evelyn
678 books | 24 friends

Malory ...
131 books | 47 friends

Sarah
1,278 books | 51 friends

Cheyenne
276 books | 127 friends

Josie
37 books | 1 friend





Polls voted on by Wren

Lists liked by Wren