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reading is social. books are community. mid-30s • trans • Seattle

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I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing In America (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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“We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (via girlinlondon)

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By lennart

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Natasja V.

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Juliette

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Recipes for a snowy Sunday ❄️. . (at Glasgow, United Kingdom)

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That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment

Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. (via ijustkindalikebooks)

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Your hair is winter fire, January embers. My heart burns there, too.

Stephen King, It (via brightbeautifulthings)

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Do you mark up your books? Do you remember when/why you started?

I’ve never been one to make notes within my books. If I have quotes to keep or thoughts to remember & connect, I typically make them in my separate notebook or my phone.

But after reading S. earlier this year, the specific kind of romance marginalia can add to reading really piqued my interest. Something about specificity of a moment in time, a place I’m in, and whichever line struck me right at that exact minute - all remaining tangled rather than parceled out to other memory keepers.

📖 THE SOCIAL ANIMAL by David Brooks

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A little corner of my apartment.

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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes .”- E.E. Cummings

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Happy Saturday! I finished Jonathan Strange just before my birthday dinner last night, and it was such a five-star read. Review to come!

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“Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.”- Haruki Murakami

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