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Feature Literature:

Invisible Man - Ralp Ellison 7.5/10

Race. Identity. The Self.

Essential Essays - Adrienne Rich 7.5/10

Essay anthology. Insightful.

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Tales of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu

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Feature Literature:

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee 9.0/10

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Essay Anthology:

Calypso - David Sedaris 7.5/10

Wit and humor. LGBTQIA+.

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The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo 7/10

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Hyberbole and a Half by Allie Brosh 8.5 / 10

Feature literature:

The Shell Collector by Anthony Doerr 9/10

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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 10/10

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Hello world.

There had been stirrings. Thought we were gone for good. But this woke us up from our deep slumber.

Full steam ahead with this page then. 💕

Book Relay: Fostering love for reading with a ‘library’ that knocks at your door BOOKS possess a wonderful magic that takes their readers to various mystical places every time they turn the crisp pages. It’s like traveling to different worlds and jumping from one universe to another while chilling on your favorite couch with only a book at hand. But since both physical and ele...

A reflection on the diversity of human lives:
some flourishing, others vanishing.
A rumination on the juxtaposition
of glorious nature and cruel man.
A celebration and mourning
of humanityㅡ
through which we must stand together
in solidarity.

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A Sapiens Delight
< odile >

Down under the whispering land,
the realms of gold ㅡ
these violent delights:
The revenge
of seven subversive lives;
The unbearable lightness
of being the sovereign trickster;
The water defenders' journey
to the center of the Earth.
The songs
of distant Earth and the mountains
echoed:
sapiens. . .

The Courage To Love
———Thegirlwholived

First things first
What is a girls worth Love isnt supposed to hurt
Take the risk
Run with me
Till i want no more

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The biggest risk a person may take in life is falling inlove, it can stir up feelings of hurt loss and rejection, you give someone a part of yourself that you will never get back. That’s why it is important to know your worth in a relationship and never settle for less.Love isnt supposed to hurt. If it does, then its not true love.

Alice is just another victim of someone's infidelity.
Vanessa is just another martyr wife trapped in a marriage.

But how far are you willing to go to keep your husband's darkest secret?
Will you continue to love him in spite of what he has done?
Cheating, and killing someone?

Don't ask Vanessa.
She'll love him no matter what.

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Can you keep a secret?
- Sumekha

My dark Vanessa
My love wife,
Can you keep a secret?

One day in December
that night
where the crawdads sing,
people like us
people kill people,
the truth about Alice
the girl who was supposed to die

Just between us
my lies, your lies
she said yes,
"I'll never tell"

Dear Killer,
the you I've never known
at the edge of the universe
P.S I love you

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1-3 stanza Husband's POV
4 stanza Wife's POV

Mrs Dalloway, Remember Me?
by eevee

Madrid, Nineteen Eighty-Four;
The Shadow of the Wind Splendor;

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Tuesdays with Morrie,
The Secret Garden, The Midnight Library;

Beneath the Moon Count your Blessings;
Love & Misadventure — Fragile Things;

Man’s Search for Meaning — Limitless;
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Loveless;

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This poem is a message for your loved ones. When you're gone, you don't want them to forget you. So you recall your favorite shared memory with them — how it felt, what you did, and where you went. You remind them to stay grateful and protect the things they hold dear. Lastly, you tell them the most valuable lesson you learned: Life is only meaningful when you give love.

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SO MUCH LONGING IN SO LITTLE SPACE - KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
Trans. from Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
Genre: Fiction
Destination: Norway
Indexed: Art and Literary Criticism, Edvard Munch
Type: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Publisher: Penguin Books (2019)
Price: 450 + SF
Pages: 233
Readability: Art Critic
ISBN: 978-0-14-313313-1

OVERVIEW:

Memoirist sensation from Norway, Karl Ove Knausgaard, dons his art and literary critic hat and adumbrates the seminal and major works of his fellow Norwegian icon, Edvard Munch.

BOOK ALBULARYO:

I recommend this book to anyone who is in the middle of a doctoral dissertation.

Angles of analyses, turns of phrases, and intellectual tchotchkes ordinarily used in the highest plane of academic discourse are teeming in this panoptic technical rendition and unpacking of Edvard Munch’s paintings by Knausgaard.

5 out of 5.

NURSE’S CHART:

I did not finish reading this book. I could not even bring myself to read the bare minimum of 100 pages before discarding and DNF’ing. The highfalutin artistic argot is way more than I could handle.

Verdict: Boring, fell asleep, too much jargon

DOCTOR’S PAD:

Masterpiece number 2 in this pile.

My rating: 99%

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THE BOOK THIEF – MARKUS ZUSAK
Illustrations by Trudy White
Genre: Fiction
Indexed: World War II, Memento Mori, Bibliophile, Historical Fiction
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (2016)
Pages: 550
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Like new, thrice read
Price: 600 + SF
Level: Casual
Notes: Anniversary Edition with bonus material
ISBN: 978-1-101-93418-0

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OVERVIEW:

Death is the first being that you see when you pass on. He is amiable, fair and cheerful and promises to carry your soul gently to the other side when the time comes. To date, Death has overseen the passing of souls in the tens of billions and has not once stopped to ponder the fragile existence of any one human being. Humans haunt Death and it is best that the unenviable work of fetching souls is carried with as little involvement as possible.

It is therefore a surprise when Death decides to follow the travails of one Liesel Meminger, a foster child in Molching, Germany, who is fond of stealing books. But Liesel is not special. There are no historical accounts of her existence. Truth be told, she is an infinitesimal speck that would have floated into nothingness until Death decided to write and publish her story for the world to read. There has to be a good reason for Death's curious respite for a book thief--which you must read to find out.

BOOK ALBULARYO:

The Book Thief is the recovered materials of Liesel’s written accounts of World War II with Death as the book’s co-author and publisher. It features: “a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist fighter and quite a lot of thievery.”

If the premise of the story confuses you, fret not because I too was confused in the beginning. The dark clouds parted for me only when I realized that The Book Thief is a grandiose moniker for Liesel as literal thief of books. Nothing important abides by the title The Book Thief. Liesel is your ordinary book lover who simply would not let holocaust, total war, death, destruction stand in the way of reading a book at leisure. That is all there is to The Book Thief and Liesel. Sheesh.

Yet why am I ugly crying?

4.8 / 5

NURSES’S CHART:

The Book Thief took me at least 5 hours to finish reading. Those are 5 hours spent in the company of Death who is the narrator of the story. Consequently, every sentence booms with the awesome gravitas that only Death, as personified, can bring.

Except when Brad Pitt played the character in Meet Joe Black, I have not imagined Death having an actual narrative voice in literature or in any other context. My reading experience of this book was surreal. The deadpan and morose yet sometimes light and affable tone of Death’s POV is probably what makes this book such a successful modern classic.

Verdict: Modern classic, timeless, lyrical, unique

DOCTOR’S PAD:

This book is part of our year-ender pile. We make sure that each pile has one of every major category covered. We just had a Booktok title, a New Yorker-recommended book, an international writing tilt winner, etc. That leaves us with works under the categories of Masterpiece 1, Masterpiece 2, and Masterpiece 3. With 3 books left to post before close of 2022, guess which category this book belongs in?

My rating: 97%

N.B. We strive to keep grammatical and syntactical errors to a minimum. We do apologize for any writing faux pas that slip through the cracks. We have no time to edit and revise.

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IT STARTS WITH US – COLLEEN HOOVER
Genre: Fiction
Indexed: Duology, Young Adult, Domestic Violence
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2022)
Pages: 323
Condition: Like new, thrice read
Price: 350 + SF (lowest price guaranty)
Level: Casual
Notes: Sequel to It Ends With Us, TWs for violence and abuse
ISBN: 978-1-3985-1817-9

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OVERVIEW:

Lily honestly thought she had a picture-perfect marriage with Ryle. To be sure, life could not have been any brighter until the specter of Ryle’s domestic abuse left their marriage in absolute darkness.

Now divorced, Ryle and Lily navigate the custody arrangements over their young daughter Emerson. Like the consummate abusive that he is, Ryle passes off the estrangement of feelings with Lily as a minor inconvenience that can be worked out over time. Lily does not fall for the wiles of Ryle and knows that his display of good behavior is just redundant evidence of his manipulative nature.

Not all is doom and gloom however. Lily and Atlas meet for the first time after the turmoil of the last two years had died down. Atlas remains in love with Lily and the feeling appears to be mutual.

At first, Lily conceals her romantic dalliances with Atlas. She is afraid that reconnecting with her first love might provoke Ryle into another fit of violent rage. Now is not the time to shatter the peace.

It would be only a matter time before Lily realizes that her deference to the threat of retaliation from Ryle is a form of self-inflicted abuse. Ultimately, Lily finds the courage to reveal her secret relationship to Ryle. Ryle promptly loses all control and hunts down Atlas for one final confrontation.

BOOK ALBULARYO:

Everyone knows by now that It Ends With Us, the first part of this duology, created bitter factions among its readers who either believe that Ryle is simply misunderstood and deserve a second chance, or that Ryle is beyond any hope of redemption and should be ditched if not put in prison.

It Starts With Us is Colleen Hoover’s attempt to quell further toxic behavior from her readers and settle the matter at all. In this sequel, the only side that should matter, according to Hoover, is the side that does not have a domestic abuser on it.

Hoover’s writing agenda has been apparent even from the first pages of IEWU. She manipulates readers into taking opposing beliefs and opinions on domestic abuse by purposefully creating an impossible caricature of an abuser in Ryle. This has led many to cling to Ryle in an unhealthy and misguided way. To her, IEWU was a slap in the face of the readers to simulate abuse on a literary scale—which I find problematic and stupid.

In this second installment, she foists a slew of obvious subterfuges to steer readers into thinking that the ending to IEWU deserved further elaboration. Yet, like IEWU, she reveals that she only wrote this book because Tiktok forced her to. What a shame. Why could she not leave well enough alone?

CoHo, indeed, is blessed with the gift of storytelling. She can probably write a love story between two pieces of rock and still captivate an audience. I just wish she focuses her talents on something meaningful other than act beholden to the whims of the Tiktok mob. Sad!

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3.4 / 5

NURSES’S CHART:

Colleen Hoover has been accused of so many literary crimes, some deserved and some outlandish.

But if there is one thing that no one can accuse her of is nonengagement with her fans. She has given, will give, and continues to give in to what her readers want so long as there is sufficient clamor for it in social media.

CoHo is not shy about her pandering. She says so herself in the epilogue that this gratuitous sequel is an abomination that should not have seen the light of day. Yet thanks to the overwhelming demand by readers in Tiktok via , CoHo punches out this extended epilogue to It Ends With Us despite not needing any.

I like romance and fantasy books in this space. This pointless sequel is not it. Waste of money and time.

Verdict: Vapid, shallow, forced narrative, pandering, annoying

DOCTOR’S PAD:

It Starts With Us is one of my most favorite reads this year. It is written with the same charm and effervescence as the first book, It Ends With Us, but with one important difference. Unlike IEWU’s gossamer style, ISWU rips the bandage apart and confronts the readers with the plain and ugly truth about domestic violence.

Recall that in IWEU, Ryle’s ambivalent characterization as a sympathetic figure left millions of readers confused about him as an abusive person. Because of the intentionally vague portrayal of who Ryle really is, the physical and psychological violence that he casually inflicts on Lily did not deter a legion of supporters from thinking that his actions are somewhat justified given his own past traumas. Who would not feel sorry for a rich, hotshot neurosurgeon? What’s a little pushing Lily down the stairs anyway? Says the Ryle apologist.

Thank goodness for ISWU. This second part clarifies in the sharpest relief possible the outlines of Ryle as an abject monster as to leave no room for doubt that he is a felon and deserves to rot in jail.

Kudos to Colleen for realizing she has a very large platform where she can shape impressionable minds in Tiktok and Instagram about healthy and safe approaches against domestic abuse. Although she did make the fatal mistake of romanticizing Ryle as an abuser in IWEU, she now has fully redeemed herself by unmasking the fiend that was in Ryle all along.

Hopefully this book terminates the Team Ryle and Team Atlas debates as there should have been none in the first place.

My rating: 94%

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