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How to Be The Greatest Improviser on Earth

by Will Hines (Goodreads Author)

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Slow Burn Summer

by Josie Silver (Goodreads Author)

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The Bee Sting

by Paul Murray

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This is my problem. I don’t know how to talk along the surface of things, but I also don’t want to unearth the ugly stuff, over and over again, for people who are just passing through my life. It’s depleting. Like every time I dole out a ...more

Bad Summer People

by Emma Rosenblum

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Death and the Penguin

by Andrey Kurkov

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“If mentalizing is me projecting my experiences onto you, caring involves getting out of my experiences and understanding that what you need may be very different from what I would need in that situation. This is hard. The world is full of people who are nice; there are many fewer who are effectively kind.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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“You know,” Hallie said, “they make all these antidepressants. They should make a pill that stops you from loving the people you can’t have, and makes you attracted to those you can.”
― Caren Lissner, Starting from Square Two

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