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Alice is Currently Reading

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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

by Ed Yong

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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

by Sarah Ogilvie

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Ice

by Anna Kavan

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Alice’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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A small pet is often an excellent companion. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, Notes on Nursing, 1912

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Alice’s Quotes

“And whatever the name, it felt like something heavy at the end of a book that otherwise felt full of lightness.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“They thought it was pure, but it wasn’t. Not really.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“There were stories, I thought, and I wanted to know them.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“So this is, on occasion, a ghost story. Or a book written while grieving, and emerging from grieving, which is also a ghost story in its own way.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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“I was empty, exposed, I was so light I was adrift, I was lint in the air.”
― Victoria Finlay, Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

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