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"...you get trained early on as a woman to perceive how others are perceiving you, at the great expense of what you yourself are feeling about them. sometimes you mix the two up in a terrible tangle that's hard to unravel."
(really enjoying lily king's "writers & lovers", fwiw)
(really enjoying lily king's "writers & lovers", fwiw)
since march I've only read four books. "writers & lovers" and "lost and wanted," which @ayeletw gave me (
) and "real life" and "all adults here" which I got at @booksaremagicbk. maybe it's the contrast with all this time spent with my toddler...but they're all wonderful.
) and "real life" and "all adults here" which I got at @booksaremagicbk. maybe it's the contrast with all this time spent with my toddler...but they're all wonderful.
anyway, reading is such an incredible solace to me and I miss it so much and if you have time read a novel this week, you get to step outside and inside of yourself simultaneously AND sometimes have your brain changed permanently
these were the bookplates my parents gave me for my 6th (I think?) birthday, and I still think this is true
