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Ariel is Currently Reading

Ariel is currently reading

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

by Julia Ioffe

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, audiobooked, borrowed, non-fict

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read in September 2026

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How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

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Ariel’s Notes & Highlights

Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood

5 notes & 11 highlights

then walked home shoulder to shoulder swaying like long grasses.

Lovely.

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Ariel’s Quotes

“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: meanings, words

835 likes

“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: love, self-love

332 likes

“Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's soul being blown to the far side of the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

75 likes

“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

221 likes

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

305 likes

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