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dresells

Joined May 2016

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The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer by Christina Perozzi, Hallie Beaune
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Surveys: A Novel by Natasha Stagg
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Scarecrone by Melissa Broder
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Her 37th Year, an Index | Suzanne Scanlon

He sleeps, you grade student essays so terrible you don‘t know where to begin; you stop yourself from scribbling THIS SUCKS in bright red Sharpie across a title page you sign with a smiley face: Sincerely, Yr Instructor.

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The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath
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From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor and another fig was Ee Gee the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe [...

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The Folded Clock: A Diary | Heidi Julavits
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If an object is relegated to dailiness it becomes a part of you. It is ingested by habit. It is stored between the studs of the walls of your self.

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Margaret the First: A Novel | Danielle Dutton
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If I were going to shill for any book I've read so far this year, this would be the one. Luminous, poetic prose vividly reimagining the inner life of one of history's most fascinating women, Margaret Cavendish. Absolutely gorgeous.

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"This is one of the most painful things about getting older, especially getting older in the same place you were young: the constant realizations that you could have been doing everything better all along, if only you'd known how to read the map more accurately."