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I've had to shelve this because it's too delicate to carry banging around in my bag but oh my god this is good for the nature-starved

reading joy williams is a simple pleasure

Had high hopes for this but disappointed to encounter bafflingly outdated gender perspectives and deliberate exclusion at every turn. not sure whether to press on for the nuggets of historical fact or abandon for a better alternative

love this little collection to dip into, especially enjoyed the one on being NB in a Quaker community

so much food for thought, a little disorganized and sometimes wide-eyed but nonetheless valuable

I've been savoring this one for a while now

this is as close to what I've been "looking" for in literature as any book randomly picked from the shelf has any business being :)

small sips

need to revisit this one

I'm already obsesse

this shit is funny

really enjoying this!!

rip this needs to be returned

how do I get in the mood to read essays :// (how does anyone !)

Ouch! this book personally attacks me every day and I'm probably going to read everything else she's written because of that 🥲

I can't sit still anymore now that im not #sickandfrail and instead #surgingwithcortisol but this is such a nice read and I know I'm going to love every minute of it

barskova writes in the beginning, "a traveler chooses to see." this book has been sitting on my desk for months. I did not expect to be immediately confronted by vivid evocations of the Leningrad blockade-- a blot in time I was unaware of until I read the first short story, "Eastrangement" and unwittingly became the kind of traveler Polina became: to see the ghosts hidden in St. Petersburg through their own eyes.

pentecostal mothers do what pentecostal mothers do 🙏 (raise cynical lesbians in contempt of all men)

fun so far, affirming, yep we all have the same digital fears, yes the matrix of commerce and decentralized community is eating us alive; hoping it gets more interesting but reviews I've read are not promising

I'm very excited for this!!!!

what I've learned so far: the only good dead infant is a baptized dead infant; some were baptized after dying, and some mothers who killed their offspring baptized them beforehand for lighter sentences