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Sarah
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They will reliably cloak this smell of domestication in alcohol and nicotine and self-loathing until Monday. Mondays are for quitting everything. Again. Except when it storms on Monday. Then quitting everything is pushed to Tuesday. Today
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“I’d like to shout down through a hole in the ceiling of time and advise the people of a hundred years ago: If you want your secrets kept, whisper them into the ear of your dearest, most trusted friend. Do not trust the keyboard and screen. If you do, we’ll know everything.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“Women got that feeling about him, that funny one we all get when we know something isn’t right, but we don’t know how to politely extricate ourselves from the situation without escalating the threat of violence or harassment. That is not a skill women are taught, the same way men are not taught that it is okay to leave a woman alone if what she wants is to be left alone.”
― Bright Young Women
― Bright Young Women
“Anyone can be a mother, I think. A lot of people are mothers, and you don’t get paid for any of it. Seems like a lifetime internship. You never know if you’re doing things right, and someone is always telling you the ways you’re doing it wrong.”
― Pick a Colour
― Pick a Colour
“Zac had never been a particularly reliable narrator of his own life, but even in the darkest moments of the past two years, neither Matthew nor Rachelle had ever guessed that he could be running around adult London pretending to be somebody else altogether—much less doing so in a manner that real adults, people of substance, might actually fall for.”
― London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
― London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
“Mina Foi’s finger zipped out and collected a stray sliver of fried onion that lay upon the tablecloth, and she put the sliver in her mouth with an absent-minded expression, not glancing about to see if anyone had spotted her because if nobody sees you, you didn’t do what you did. She was brimful of sadness for no particular reason, just a poignancy, a melancholy that comes from eating such royal food when your life is so very empty, when there is austerity in all matters save dinner.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Shanghai Mamas Book Club
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The Shanghai Mamas Book Club has been actively meeting since 2010. We meet monthly to discuss the selected book, drink a little, eat a little, and lau ...more
Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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