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‘’Vinnie’s faults are easy to fall into for anyone whose critical faculties have been pronounced by education - and they need to be corrected because they do not, as Lurie shows, lead to happiness.” Ana-Maria, you seem to gift me books that feel specifically aimed at my neuroses.

In boston mode 🧘🏻‍♀️

Sometimes you’ll treat yourself to what you thought was an 80s SK but is in fact an early 90s SK… and that fact will make itself so obvious to you so quickly…

‘Trust is fine, but control is better’

Tearing up at 17 pages in. How do you do it Stevie!

‘[Jacqueline] gave her husband new interests and tastes to round out the old, even as she studied history and golf to keep up with him. They learned from each other.’

“Kennedy never doubted the accuracy of Oscar Wilde’s observation: ‘in America, the President reigns for four years, but Journalism governs forever.’”

Gin gimlet, Billie holiday, Prozac nation. Happy Thursday Ana-Maria

No 3 in the NYTs 100 best books of the 21st century is wild i can’t lie (justice for the Goldfinch)

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.”

‘He was so unhealthily stuffed up with his recent past, like a man with a cold. If he could only live in the present he might breathe freely.’

‘Against the faith men had in the institutions they and not women had shaped, women upheld some other principle of selfhood in which being surpassed doing.’

Okay not a beach read. Beach reads make you feel good and I don’t feel good okay