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He couldn’t imagine his life without his daughter. He couldn’t imagine not working for a better galaxy for her to grow up in. He still wasn’t entirely sure how he was going to do all that and manage to keep her safe.
How to tell if a Star Wars book is good: the author manages to squeeze in a paragraph about how much Bail loves Leia even when it has absolutely nothing to do with the plot. 💙
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“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“These include longer hospital stay; longer and more painful recovery; higher risk of infection, organ damage, adhesions, hemorrhage, embolism, and hysterectomy; more blood loss; higher chance of rehospitalization; higher chance of a complication with the next pregnancy; less initial contact with the baby; less success breastfeeding; higher risk of respiratory problems for the baby; and twice the risk of the most catastrophic complication of all: maternal death.51”
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“A cesarean section is a wound that impedes normal digestive function, function that must resume following surgery. Breast milk is delayed. Seven layers of tissue and muscle are severed.”
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
“What they don’t understand is that obstetricians are surgeons, and they know pathology, but they really suck at wellness.” They are trained to sew up a tear, but not to prevent one.”
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
― Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
Cai’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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