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“When I was small and easily wounded, books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book, they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight; the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.”
― The Monsters of Templeton
― The Monsters of Templeton
“Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.”
― The Illusion of Separateness
― The Illusion of Separateness
“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries.”
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Beth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Beth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,494 books
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2,992 friends
5,706 books
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1,048 friends
2,977 books
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192 friends
348 books
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74 friends
4,139 books
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92 friends
1,116 books
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47 friends
2,124 books
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107 friends
5,597 books
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424 friends
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