Reading to stay alive

So many books, so little time...

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Ferdinand von Schirach - Schuld (Guilt) 

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Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems

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All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

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There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day toward success or failure. But no curses.

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

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Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

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Sarah Thornton - Seven Days in the Art World

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Rainbow Rowell - Landline

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Françoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness)

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Well - I have to say I personally have never drawn such a sharp line between 'good' and 'bad' as you. For me: that line is often false. The two are never disconnected. One can't exist without the other. As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how. But you - wrapped up in judgment, always regretting the past, cursing yourself, blaming yourself, asking 'what if', 'what if.' 'Life is cruel.' 'I wish I had died instead of.' Well - think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no - hang on - this is a question worth struggling with. What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for some of us, we can't get there any other way?

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

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Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

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Bo Burnham - Perfect (Egghead, or You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone)

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Bo Burnham - Egghead or, You Can’t Survive on Ideas Alone

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Markus Zusak - I Am the Messenger

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For the first time in my life, someone saw me, and I loved him because he made me feel I was enough.

Hannah Kent - Burial Rites

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Agnes shook her head.. 'To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.' Tóti persisted. 'But, Agnes, actions speak louder than words.' 'Actions lie.'

Hannah Kent - Burial Rites

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Hannah Kent - Burial Rites

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He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.

Sun Tzu - The Art of War