Kayla

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Kayla’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (878)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1111)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
2025‎ (72)
favourites‎ (56)
audiobook‎ (431)
owned-books‎ (350)
nonfiction‎ (328)
memoir‎ (180)

classics‎ (179)
mystery-thriller‎ (144)
wwii-nonfiction‎ (135)
romance‎ (110)
2022‎ (109)
2021‎ (105)
2020‎ (102)
fantasy‎ (96)
2024‎ (79)
science-fiction‎ (78)

2023‎ (73)
historical-fiction‎ (62)
apocalyptic‎ (56)
biography‎ (53)
arc-classics-owned‎ (52)
horror‎ (40)
graphic-novels‎ (36)
bookrecs‎ (34)
dystopian‎ (30)
poetry‎ (21)

2026‎ (18)
titanic‎ (16)
reference‎ (13)
play-screenplay‎ (10)
deanstreetpress-owned‎ (5)
persephone-owned‎ (5)
penguin-english-library-owned‎ (4)
dnf‎ (1)

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“A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.'
'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

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“The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
We are not quite novels.
The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

tags: we-are-what-we-read

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