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Hitchcock and Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema

by Steven C. Smith

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Breakaway: The PWHL and the Women Who Changed the Game

by Karissa Donkin

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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

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I don’t need to tell you that every single one of these infuriating responses was from a man.

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“I don't watch a lot of porn, but a typical search term for me is "fat lesbians." What a beautiful fantasy: to be accepted and embraced and adored as your biggest self, the most you, by a woman who is her fullest her.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

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“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at all. They are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

tags: anxiety, christianity

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“I despised the book from the first page, but unfortunately I was at a point in my life in which finishing what I started reading was an absolute necessity. I’ve become wiser since then.”
― Mirna Valerio, A Beautiful Work In Progress

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