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Rachel Bok
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“It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“If they ask you to stand still, you should dance.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut didn’t like me either. He had problems, terrible problems. He couldn’t see the world the way I see it. I suppose I’m too much Pollyanna, he was too much Cassandra. Actually I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both. But I don’t think I’m too over optimistic.”
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Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
105 books
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117 friends
196 books
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5 friends
480 books
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94 friends
572 books
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84 friends
148 books
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74 friends
943 books
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12 friends
306 books
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35 friends
144 books
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193 friends
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