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Paris in the Present Tense

by Mark Helprin

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May 02, 2026 08:13PM

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LaRose

by Louise Erdrich

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Allyson’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth

The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth by Beth Allison Barr

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Patriarchy walks with structural racism and systemic oppression, and it has done so consistently throughout history.

The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans

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Atmosphere

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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“Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

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“I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“what we consider to be the most successful route for us to take, actually isn’t. Because too often our view of success is about some external bullshit idea of achievement – an Olympic medal, the ideal husband, a good salary. And we have all these metrics that we try and reach. When really success isn’t something you measure, and life isn’t a race you can win. It’s all . . . bollocks, actually . . .”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“There have always been those who argued that the end justifies the means, that the means aren’t really important,” [King] said. “But we will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize the ends are not cut off from the means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in the process, and ultimately you can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.”
― Jill Lepore, This America: The Case for the Nation

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