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“I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.”
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“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”
― Oblivion
― Oblivion
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
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“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
― Naked
― Naked
“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Shelby’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Shelby’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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