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November 20, 2022December 5, 2022

When I dare to be powerful

This is a quote from the book The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde.

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If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

The Cancer Journals – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.

First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde’s experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women’s pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women’s body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Poetic and profoundly feminist, Lorde’s testament gives visibility and strength to women with cancer to define themselves, and to transform their silence into language and action.

More details can be found here on Goodreads and on StoryGraph.

November 13, 2022December 5, 2022

I miss you more than I remember you

This is a quote from the book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong.

Quote by Ocean Vuong, “In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: *nhớ.* Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, *Con nhớ mẹ không?* I flinch, thinking you meant, *Do you remember me?*
I miss you more than I remember you.”

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If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.

With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.

More details can be found here on Goodreads and on StoryGraph.

November 6, 2022December 5, 2022

Writing is neither vibrant life nor…

This is a quote from the book Upstream by Mary Oliver.

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If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

Upstream: Selected Essays – Summary

In case you’re interested, here is the book summary from Goodreads:

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstream finds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonishment and admiration for the natural world and the craft of writing.

As she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, finding solace and safety within the woods, and the joyful and rhythmic beating of wings, Oliver intimately shares with her readers her quiet discoveries, boundless curiosity, and exuberance for the grandeur of our world.

This radiant collection of her work, with some pieces published here for the first time, reaffirms Oliver as a passionate and prolific observer whose thoughtful meditations on spiders, writing a poem, blue fin tuna, and Ralph Waldo Emerson inspire us all to discover wonder and awe in life’s smallest corners.

More details on Goodreads can be found here.

October 30, 2022December 5, 2022

…and my life began

This is a quote from the book Circe by Madeline Miller.

Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below!

If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

Circe – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child – not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power – the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves.

Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.

But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone, and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.

More details on Goodreads can be found here.

October 23, 2022December 5, 2022

A work of art is good if…

This is a quote from the book Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below!

If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

Letter to a Young Poet – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke’s profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.

Translated by: Charlie Louth

More details on Goodreads can be found here.

October 16, 2022December 5, 2022

Every day is a new day

This is a quote from the book The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

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If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

The Old Man and the Sea – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway’s magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man’s challenge to the elements in which he lives.

More details on Goodreads can be found here.

October 9, 2022December 5, 2022

Whatever our souls are made of…

This is a quote from the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

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If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

Wuthering Heights – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff’s bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.

More details on Goodreads can be found here.

October 2, 2022December 5, 2022

A woman must have…

This is a quote from the book A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf.

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If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

A Room of One’s Own – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women’s colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

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September 25, 2022December 5, 2022

All I want now is to…

This is a quote from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below!

If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Summary

Here is the book summary from Goodreads:

In this celebrated work Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. It ranks as one of Wilde’s most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind.

More details on Goodreads can be found here.

September 18, 2022December 5, 2022

I will not be…

This is a quote from the book Circe by Madeline Miller.

Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below!

If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here.

Circe – Summary

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More details on Goodreads can be found here.

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