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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)

by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 14, 2025 09:39AM

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

by Katherine May

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in November 2020

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Karly Grice said: " 2nd Reading: I thought I knew what burnout was on 2020 when I first read this book. COVID and the exhausting demands upon women and teachers, the protests from Black communities in the Twin Cities down the road from me and in the many BIPOC communiti 2nd Reading: I thought I knew what burnout was on 2020 when I first read this book. COVID and the exhausting demands upon women and teachers, the protests from Black communities in the Twin Cities down the road from me and in the many BIPOC communities where activists screamed “I can’t breathe” in protest as a plea for their lives.

But on this side of the post-pandemic world (February 2023), my mind, body, heart, and soul have reached a wintering that I’ve feared daily I’ll never heal from. So, I turned again in what truly feels like one of the darkest times of my life to this book, and once again May’s words remind me better than any Bible or song can that “to everything there is a season” and that—one way or another—this too shall pass.

When I meet people and they realize I’m trained and currently working as an English/Education professor,
the topic inevitably turns to either books (What are you reading? What are you teaching?) or the education system (so…what do you think of schools right now?). They often leave without the e answers to the questions they want as I exhausted my proclaim, “It’s complicated.” They ask me what I know from the books I’ve read and the lived experiences I’ve had. I don’t know how to tell them how hopeless it feels without them discrediting me as a pessimist. In lieu of giving them “the answers” they ask for with their hungry, terrified eyes—much like student after student asks me for each semester—I have to look away and instead suggest they read the books themselves. But due to the inequity in access to time, books, education, literacies, I know they often don’t. And it breaks my heart.

It doesn’t break my heart in any form of pity. It breaks my heart because there are no clear answers. I can’t tell you what’s in the book because the book is so much more than the words on the page. It’s how they hit your heart, your soul. It’s how you see yourself in the author’s story. How you hurt when they describe hurts. How you feel healed and hopeful when they show you how they found healing and hope.

I hope to one day say these words directly to Katherine May, but for now I’ll settle for writing them here: Thank you for saving my life. Thank you for showing me the world will keep turning. Thank you for showing me how we survive the winter: with wonder and awe together through stories.

-KMG, 2/19/2023

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1st Reading: One of those books that speaks to your soul and feels written directly for you. One of those books that after finishing you evangelize its gospel to anyone who will listen.

A must read for academics, teachers, parents, the overworked/burnt out, and basically anyone who feels like they are just barely surviving this global human winter of 2020. ...more "

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Inside the Now: Meditations on Time

by Thich Nhat Hanh

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We’re all young working women who grew up aspiring to have both careers and families. The idea of meeting a guy, giving up your job for him, and moving to his hometown to support his dreams while living off his salary? It wasn’t something ...more

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Karly’s Quotes

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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