Aster

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Aster is Currently Reading

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

by Ed Yong

bookshelves: non-fiction, nature, currently-reading

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Jan 07, 2026 07:55PM

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Battle Royale

by Koushun Takami

bookshelves: classic, horror, my-library, physical-tbr, thriller, currently-reading

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Jan 05, 2026 02:31PM

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The Lesbian Body

by Monique Wittig

bookshelves: currently-reading, feminism, my-library, physical-tbr, poetry, queer

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Oct 18, 2025 01:30PM

“Even she didn’t know who she really was: the fun, capable colleague, or the revolting madwoman lurking under the surface. There was no singularity, no undeniable truth, no middle ground. She felt both sane and deranged, joyful and miserable, competent and crippled.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

tags: mental-illness

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“Elias’s body, emptied of his soul, now seems both precious and cursed.”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

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“People need something tangible to attach their grief to. There is no comfort to be taken from wide open spaces full of nothing.”
― Gemma Amor, White Pines

tags: emptiness, grief, loss

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“The mother-shaped hole became a cutout of the blackest black. Something I could only see around. If I tried to look directly at it, I saw emptiness.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

tags: grief

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“I should be busy, I should be moving forward, I should be working on my leadership skills, making plans to take over the world. But what she really wanted to do was to stand up and scream, ‘I don’t give a fuck!”
― Luiza Sauma, Everything You Ever Wanted

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