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Aaron is Currently Reading

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Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars

by Peter Godwin (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 15, 2025 10:21AM

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Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life

by Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 03, 2023 11:31PM

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“but you can only properly help someone who tells you what’s wrong with them.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

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“Reading lets us live in someone else’s shoes. Literature builds bridges; it makes our world larger, not smaller.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“and who thought that Asian identification boiled down to being annoyingly obsessed with bubble tea and BTS were diluting the radical force of the diaspora canon.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“My neurons number half a billion, and they are distributed among my eight arms. On occasion, I have wondered whether I might have more intelligence in a single tentacle than a human does in its entire skull.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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