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Heather Birt

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The song rises from the mouths of the nuns in puffs of white breath, it expands as it flies, it touches the tall white ceiling and collects there until it grows so heavy that it begins to pour down the walls and the pillars and the windows ...more

The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Babel

by R.F. Kuang

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Heather’s Quotes

“Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone for thirty years and still it is not done, that image of the thing I cannot see. I cannot finish it and set it free, transformed to energy.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016

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“My memories of him, though few, are mostly pleasant, but memories of people you hardly know are often permitted a kind of pleasantness in their absence. It's those who stay who are judged the harshest, simply by virtue of being around to be judged.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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“Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumors; the world is starving, but we’re well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: america, apathy, first-world-privilege, ignorance, privilege

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“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

tags: discrimination, privilege, racism, white-privilege

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“If we push in the right spots – if we create losses where the Empire can’t stand to suffer them – then we’ve moved things to the breaking point. Then the future becomes fluid, and change is possible. History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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Existential Book Club — 1474 members — last activity Dec 21, 2025 02:39PM
This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more

Writers Workshop — 111 members — last activity Aug 27, 2022 08:53AM
This is a companion to a monthly roundtable discussion about one writing-related book. Every month the last Saturday of the month, the panel discusses ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26836 members — last activity 42 minutes ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

Completists' Club — 540 members — last activity Dec 24, 2024 10:59PM
A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more

I Love My Humor Dark. No Sugar, No Cream — 584 members — last activity Nov 09, 2025 12:31AM
A celebration and conversation of all literature that is of the intelligent dark humor or satirical variety.

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