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"The existence of sensitive people is an advantage for humankind because it is this group that best expresses humanity’s creative urges and needs.
Through their instinctual responses, the world is best interpreted. Under normal circumstances, they are artists or artisans, seekers, inventors, shamans, poets, prophets." - Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate

It was 99p on kindle

I’m struggling to get through this one - is life too short? Literary, it is not. Shallow characterisation, weak plot, it reads as a not very good young adult book

“…. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath.
That is how I like to be loved.
Therefore I will write of dogs.”

“I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs.”

I’m reading this at the moment and really enjoying it. Only 99p on the kindle!

Loving this!

Unfortunately, I’m stopping this one for now. Let’s see what my sister thinks of it

Omg….amazing book!!! Will finish it tomorrow

Sooo excited to get stuck into this after watching Anuk speak on Sunday at the Booker shortlist event! Wishing him luck for the ceremony!

I’m finding it incredibly misogynistic and as such very hard to continue reading…

“Men, after all, hate women so that they don’t have to hate themselves.”

This is a great read already! Lots of plot! Lots of sex!!! Wasn’t expecting that

Sally Rooney day at last! I read the free sample on my kindle before work. Safe to say, I love it. Patiently awaiting the postman’s arrival with my pre order copy 🤞

“Being “in love”—limerence—is involuntary; you have no conscious control over the creeping obsession and the hormonal-biochemical imperative to Pay Attention to this Fascinating New Creature in your world.”