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"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'" Kurt Vonnegut

bookmarks:
lisa MUSIC
home cooking
FILM
travel (memorable locations)
SONGS
  • The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward ★★★★
  • Heavy, Kiese Laymon ★★★★★
  • Tribe, Sebastian Junger ★★★
  • Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid ★★★★
  • The Knockout Queen, Rufi Thorpe ★★★★
  • Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri ★★★
  • Writers & Lovers ★★★★
  • The Girls ★★★
  • City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert ★★★★
  • The Folded Clock, Heidi Julavits ★★★★
  • Less, Andrew Sean Greer ★★★★ 1/2
  • To the End of June, Cris Beam ★★★
  • All That You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung ★★★1/2
  • Say Nothing, Patrick Raddon Keefe, ★★★
  • The Fever, Megan Abbott ★★★★
  • The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis ★★★
  • Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the Anatomy of Intrigue, Ryan Holiday ★★★
  • American Kingpin, Nick Bilton ★★★
  • The Cabin at the End of the World ★★★★
  • Astonish Me, Maggie Shipstead ★★★★★
  • The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan ★★★
  • Lost Girls, Robert Kolker ★★★★
  • Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino ★★★★
  • Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood ★★★
  • And Now We Have Everything, Meaghan O'Connell ★★★★★
  • The Things She's Seen, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Ezekiel Kwaymullina ★★ 1/2
  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells ★★ 1/2
  • Talking to Strangers; What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell ★★★
  • The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead ★★★★
  • The Almost Sisters, Joshilyn Jackson ★★★
  • Happiness for Beginners, Katherine Center ★★★
  • Ghost Wall ★★★ 1/2
  • Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie ★★★★
  • Why Read Moby-Dick? Nathaniel Philbrick ★★★
  • The Water Cure, Sophie Machintosh ★★★
  • Three Women, Lisa Taddeo ★★★
  • The Library Book, Susan Orlean ★★★★
  • Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, Beth Ann Fennelly ★★★ 1/2
  • Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhha Lai ★★★★
  • Gift From the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh ★★★
  • Kindred, Octavia Butler ★★★★
  • Everything Happens for a Reason, Kate Bowler ★★★★
  • Barracoon, Zora Neale Hurston ★★★
  • The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates ★★★
  • The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani ★★★★
  • The River, Peter Heller ★★★★
  • Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Carrie Brownstein ★★
  • Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner ★★★★★
  • the emissary, Yoko Tawada ★★ 1/2
  • Inheritance, Dani Shapiro ★★★
  • Losers, Michael Lewis ★★★★★
  • Normal People, Sally Rooney ★★★★
  • Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot ★★★
  • the great believers, Rebecca Makkai ★★★★ 1/2
  • the incomplete book of running, peter sagal ★★★★☆
  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters (graphic novel), Emil Ferris ★★★ 1/2
  • Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid ★★★ 1/2
  • Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel ★★
  • The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner ★★☆☆☆
  • Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay ★★★
  • Dark Places ★★★ 1/2
  • Bad Blood, John Carreyrou ★★★★☆
  • The Parking Lot Attendant, Nafkote Tamirat ★★☆☆☆
  • My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite ★★★★★
  • So Lucky, Nicola Griffith ★★★☆☆
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh ★★☆☆☆
  • Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn ★★★★☆
  • Red Clocks, Leni Zumas ★★★★★
  • The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi ★★★☆☆
  • Best American Essays, 2017 ★★★★☆
  • small country, gael faye ★★★★☆
  • time was, ian mcdonald ★★★☆☆
  • the remains of the day, kazuo ishiguro ★★★★★
  • the tale of Despereaux, Kate Di Camillo ★★☆☆☆
  • the light of the world, elizabeth alexander ★★★★☆
  • the best we could do (graphic novel), thi bui ★★★★☆
  • essays on love, alain de botton ★★★★☆
  • Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann & Kerascoett ★★★☆☆
  • You'll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein ★★☆☆☆
  • Florida, Lauren Groff ★★★★☆
  • Body Music, Julie Maroh ★★★☆☆
  • The Hate You Give, Angie Thomas ★★★ 1/2
  • The Strange, Jerome Ruillier, ★★★★☆
  • Dying: A Memoir, Cory Taylor ★★★☆☆
  • The Rules Do Not Apply, Ariel Levy ★★ 1/2
  • The End We Start From, Megan Hunter ★★★★★
  • Pure Land ★★ 1/2
  • We the Animals, Justin Torres ★★★★★
  • The Terrible, Yrsa Daley-Ward ★★★☆☆
  • The Vegetarian, Han Kang ★★☆☆☆
  • The Fact of a Body, Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich ★★★★★
  • The Recovering: Intoxication & Its Aftermath ★★★★★
  • Killers of the Flower Moon ★★★★★
  • Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado ★★★☆☆
  • The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker ★★★★★
  • the burning girl, claire messud ★★ 1/2
  • The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah ★★★☆☆
  • Political Tribes, Amy Chua ★★★☆☆
  • Calypso, David Sedaris ★★★★☆
  • Social Creature, Tara Isabella Burton ★★★☆☆
  • Mrs. Fletcher, Tom Perrotta ★★ 1/2
  • Americanized, Sara Saedi ★★★ 1/2
  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara ★★★☆☆
  • Hunger, Roxane Gay ★★☆☆☆
  • Exit West, Moshin Hamid ★★★☆☆
  • People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry ★★★★☆
  • Educated, Tara Westover ★★★★★
  • Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick ★★★★☆
  • 11/22/63, Stephen King ★★★☆☆
  • the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, taylor jenkins reid ★★☆☆☆
  • a colony in a nation ★★★☆☆
  • little fires everywhere, celeste ng ★★★★☆
  • when breath becomes air, paul kalanithi ★★★☆☆
  • the orchid thief, susan orlean ★★★★★
  • goodbye, vitamin, rachel khong ★★★☆☆
  • call me by your name, andre aciman ★★★★☆
  • wedding toasts i'll never give, ada calhoun ★★★★☆
  • modern lovers, emma straub ★★★☆☆
  • a separation, katie kitamura ★★★☆☆
  • born a crime, trevor noah ★★★☆☆
  • hillbilly elegy, j.d. vance ★★★☆☆
  • lincoln in the bardo, george saunders ★★★★★
  • insane clown president, matt taibbi ★★★★★
jan 17 2017 ∞
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