Ausma

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Ausma.

http://instagram.com/ausrna
https://www.goodreads.com/ausma23

Katalin Street
Ausma is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Satantango
Ausma is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Writing
Ausma is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 24 books that Ausma is reading…
Loading...
Porochista Khakpour
“It is no coincidence then that doctors and patients and the entire Lyme community report—anecdotally, of course, as there is still a frustrating scarcity of good data on anything Lyme-related—that women suffer the most from Lyme. They tend to advance into chronic and late-stage forms of the illness most because often it's checked for last, as doctors often treat them as psychiatric cases first. The nebulous symptoms plus the fracturing of articulacy and cognitive fog can cause any Lyme patient to simply appear mentally ill and mentally ill only. This is why we hear that young women—again, anecdotally—are dying of Lyme the fastest. This is also why we hear that chronic illness is a women's burden. Women simply aren't allowed to be physically sick until they are mentally sick, too, and then it is by some miracle or accident that the two can be separated for proper diagnosis. In the end, every Lyme patient has some psychiatric diagnosis, too, if anything because of the hell it takes getting to a diagnosis.”
Porochista Khakpour, Sick: A Memoir

Sheila Heti
“She had not understood that the spirit that animated the body of her father animated the body of everything. Trees and the sky were not a backdrop to life, but they were equally life.

She thought, I am the daughter of everything.”
Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

Yiyun Li
“Perfect. Imperfect. A pair of adjectives that come over and again, in all seasons, day in and day out, taunting us, judging us, isolating us, turning our isolation into illness. Is there a more accomplished adjective than perfect? Perfect is free from comparison, perfect rejects superlative. We can always be good, do better, try our best, but how perfect can we be before we can love ourselves and let others love us? And who, my dear child, has taken the word lovable out of your dictionary and mine, and replaced it with perfect?”
Yiyun Li, Where Reasons End

Kazuo Ishiguro
“All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

Louise Glück
“Because you were foolish enough to love one place,
now you are homeless, an orphan
in succession of shelters.”
Louise Glück, Poems, 1962-2012

220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 323385 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
year in books
Aiesha
668 books | 236 friends

Zoë
3,801 books | 62 friends

kimberl...
2,576 books | 165 friends

&#x1f43...
632 books | 30 friends

Guiller...
8,403 books | 457 friends

Adriana
1,104 books | 142 friends

dead le...
1,430 books | 42 friends

J
J
4,719 books | 35 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Ausma

Lists liked by Ausma