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“It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed.”
― Babel
― Babel
“The project helps me separate the school’s subculture from the body of faith it so jealously guards. Perhaps, the thought crosses my mind, I am resisting not God but people who speak for God. I’ve already learned to distrust my childhood churches’ views on race and politics. What else should I reject? A much harder question: What should I keep?”
― Where the Light Fell
― Where the Light Fell
“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“An awful new realization hits me. My brother and I are the atonement to compensate for a fatal error in belief. No wonder our mother has such strange notions of parenting, and such fierce resistance to letting us go. We alone can justify our father’s death.”
― Where the Light Fell
― Where the Light Fell
“Microbes challenge my very understanding of myself- what am "I," in the end, if half of me isn't me, and the half of me that isn't me dictates some of "my" thinking and feeling? What does it mean to be a person whose consciousness, whose love and longing and fear, can be snuffed out by an overgrowth of bacteria that neither love nor long nor fear? How absurd that I can be murdered by that venomous little atom!”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Rachel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rachel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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115 friends
133 books
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5 friends
111 books
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6 friends
318 books
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14 friends
13 books
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6 friends
188 books
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164 books
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22 friends
376 books
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12 friends
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