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halleycat

halleycat

Joined May 2016

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Pickpick

What could have easily become essentializing or sentimental is instead deeply felt! (mostly) I am a fan!

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Hag-Seed | Margaret Atwood
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Mehso-so

Because was writing paper on it, was put off by depictions of caliban and ariel. I understand modeling real thought but why always have to refer to caliban as monster. Revamp of colonial discourse? Inattention?

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Gilead | Marilynne Robinson
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Pickpick

I have changed the name of my cat "sophie" to "soapy"

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Pickpick

WORMS!!!!!! And dont compost cat poo 🙄

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Pickpick

I like her!

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Tokyo Fiance | Amelie Nothomb
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Mehso-so

Struck me as insensitive. English translation perhaps too faithful. Liked this line: "you leave the dinner table and you're still hungry"....... ?

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Pickpick

If i wanted to be anyone but myself maybe it would be wonderful inter-portant zadie ❤️💙❤️💙💙❤️💙💙❤️ (bc she thinks beautifully)

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Mehso-so

I looked forward to this & found it disappointingly reductionist. For real there's nothing you can say in criticism of american soldiers' behavior toward iraqis? Yale law "wasn't that hard"? Lets work toward deep meanings! So-so bc topic still so inter-portant

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Minaret: A Novel | Leila Aboulela
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Pickpick

Excellent & paced & revelatory on different levels. Yeah!

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Freedom: A Novel | Jonathan Franzen
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Pickpick

Soooo there might be some disappointingly normative ppl but who knew the cats are killing the birds! 🐱>>>>>>🐤 All in all must love the undercomplicated side of lit fic. 💞

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Oreo | Fran Ross
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Pickpick

Twas GOOD and CLEVER

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Here I Am: A Novel | Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mehso-so

one cannot just put sentences together and expect profundity to emerge...

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Dorothy Must Die | Danielle Paige
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Panpan

Eek re: kansas generalizations + way too many flat and moving plot points

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Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre
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Pickpick

Sooo good! Great dialect and riveting and thoughtful... But what happened to his bbc world book club interview??? 😱💞😱💖

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Found an old friend browsing before HP 😌

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Pickpick

Ooooohhh, ladies with beards! I don't have a beard, but I don't shave my legs and that can feel pretty radical too depending where I am 😋

RealLifeReading Castle Waiting is so fantastic!! 8y
MrBook 😂👍🏻 Nice pic! 8y
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Mehso-so

This is my first foray into Emma Watson's feminist book club, which I'm very excited about! But I thought this choice was intellectually overwrought and that the provocative title, though potentially perfect for another memoir, didn't actually fit this narrative. (Plus, I'm offended on behalf of pre-modern women by the implication that they lacked ambition. 💪) Partly redeemed by the beautiful last section!

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This entire page... I love Ruth Ozeki. She reveals so much and so little at the same time.

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The Girls: A Novel | Emma Cline
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You wanted things and you couldn't help it, because there was only your life, only yourself to wake up with, and how could you ever tell yourself what you wanted was wrong?

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Humans can share blood transfusions with chimps???

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Wonder | R. J. Palacio
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Quote inside a quote! And I love this book's compassion.

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Mehso-so

Something's captured in this last essay, at least.

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Mouseburger? Seriously, what was going on in the eighties...?

QueenAnne Is this where the urban legend came from..? Hihihihihi 😁 8y
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"How to read the editorial page: Don't." !!!#seldes

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"You are new enough here still to find Dutch ways peculiar?"

"I am young enough to find life peculiar."

#youth

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Better yet, turn me into an insensible chair with a broken rush seat, a nail on the hoof of a horse! Turn me into sad thick Ruth! Anything or anyone that is too dull to be able to think about herself. It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.