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The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

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The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak (Goodreads Author)

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Faith, Hope and Carnage

by Nick Cave

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Yuthika said: " Edit 2025: I have finished reading this book again, and I feel like restarting it immediately. This is how much it means to me.

"For me, vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth, whereas being invulnerable means being shut down, rig Edit 2025: I have finished reading this book again, and I feel like restarting it immediately. This is how much it means to me.

"For me, vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth, whereas being invulnerable means being shut down, rigid, small. My experience of creating music and writing songs is finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You’re being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. There’s certainly a vulnerability to that, and an incredible freedom. […] I think to be truly vulnerable is to exist adjacent to collapse or obliteration. In that place we can feel extraordinarily alive and receptive to all sorts of things, creatively and spiritually. It can be perversely a point of advantage, not disadvantage as one might think. It is a nuanced place that feels both dangerous and teeming with potential. It is the place where the big shifts can happen. The more time you spend there, the less worried you become of how you will be perceived or judged, and that is ultimately where the freedom is."

Edit 2024: I LOVE this book so much.

“[T]he luminous and shocking beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism and disenchantment that seems to surround everything, these days. It tells me that, despite how debased or corrupt we are told humanity is and how degraded the world has become, it just keeps on being beautiful. It can’t help it.”

Review 2023: What a fantastic book. I saw this book in a bookshop in Milán over my holidays but could not find a "perfect" copy.. And then as luck would have it, I had the privilege of listening to the audiobook. I marvelled at the depth and insights of Nick Cave. One could not have asked for a better interviewer than Sean O'Hagan. I am truly impressed. I'll carry this thought with me: the real potential to do nothing. And I loved Nick Cave's description of hope: "Hope is optimism with a broken heart." It led me to thinking, even a broken heart can be full, right?

Full of beauty is this world. ...more "

Sep 24, 2025 10:41PM · see review

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“Fear is flooding over me, like water.
The living know nothing. Teach me, dead ones, how to die without fear, or at least without horror. Because death is senseless, as is life.”
― Meša Selimović, Death and the Dervish

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“Yes, I need you, my fairy-tale. Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

tags: letters-to-vera, love

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“To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

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“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

tags: letters, love

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“Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.”
― Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

tags: conversation, literature, readers

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