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For a nonfiction book about dying children this is just compulsively readable, got dang

Confessions of a serial Book Starter. I have 48 books listed as "currently reading". Yeesh. My goal while I'm enjoying this period of funemployment is to catalog books I own that I haven't read, finish books in my "currently reading" list, mark the ones I don't want to read DNF, and maybe sneak a few into little free libraries around town. (Jessica writes this, then immediately starts another new book).

“A writer often has to be a kind of benevolent liar”

P. A. Cornell, “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont.” Another one that could be a movie. Gosh I’m a sucker for time-travel romance.

“We frequently see unwillingness to tolerate discomfort in people with perfectionist tendencies… the anxiety they experience when faced with a performance-based task can be debilitating” <— It me

Picked this up for $5 at Five Below mostly because I thought the cover was beautiful. I’m a sucker for gold leaf and woo-woo crystal-adjacent artwork, what can I say. But it seems surprisingly… good??? This isn’t wellness influence mantras, this is actual therapy shit.

Past the Ordivician extinction, onto the Devonian

“The lilacs don’t negate the corpse or the war but they complicate it, as the specific often does the general.”

“Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending. But even in desperate times, there is a line between brave and foolish. We have to do *something.* It does not follow that we should simply settle for *anything.*”