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Pioneering researchers have given our experience of being affected by others’ pain a number of names. In this book, we refer to “trauma exposure response.” Charles Figley uses the terms “compassion fatigue” and “secondary traumatic stress
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
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“The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
― The Best American Short Stories 2014
Ask Karen Russell
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Join innovative author Karen Russell for a discussion of her work in celebration of the paperback release of her novel Swamplandia. This is a chance t ...more
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Book club for Goodreads employees and alumni. We're a reading machine! In addition to this group, we have some other interest-specific reading groups ...more
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A book club for Goodreads employees who want to Think Big. We'll read and discuss one book (every other month) around how others have thought big abou ...more
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Goodreads company feminist book group! What's not to love? ...more
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