“Young enough to think desire alone shapes the world.”
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
“We have an obligation to Read For Pleasure. If others see us reading, we show that reading is A Good Thing." "It gets you through good times and it gets you through the other ones.”
― Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
― Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World
“What real riches are? I could spend this gold tomorrow and it would belong to someone else. No. I want us rich in choices, that's something noone can take.”
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
― How Much of These Hills Is Gold
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives.”
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
― Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
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Isha’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Isha’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Fantasy, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Philosophy, and Poetry
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