Mehreen Zahra-Malik Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club: A Novel
Celeste Ng
“It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.” ― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
Paperback, 2019
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The Captain's Verses: Love Poems
Pablo Neruda
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. -The Captain's Verses, Pablo Neruda 1952
Paperback, 2009
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“and now again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tinkling divinely on the grass stalks—all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway 3/3
Paperback, 1990
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What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death
Tallu Schuyler Quinn
“No part of an embodied life is guaranteed except death,” Tallu Schuyler Quinn in essay collection, “What We Wish Were True.” To face it — however haltingly or furiously or tearfully, or on a carousel of all those swirling feelings — is to be fully alive. https://t.co/tihAXQ2mkq
Hardcover, 2022
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Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“and now again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tinkling divinely on the grass stalks—all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway 3/3
Paperback, 2017
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Razorblade Tears
S. a. Cosby
“Ike tried to remember a time when men with badges coming to his door early in the morning brought anything other than heartache and misery, but try as he might nothing came to mind.” -Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby, with some of the top first lines in fiction.
Paperback, 2022
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Two Hundred Years Ago: an account of the ejection of the Puritans from the Church of England, and the efforts made to restore them, with a sk
David Mountfield
WHAT ISSA HEARD by David Budbill Two hundred years ago Issa heard the morning birds singing sutras to this suffering world. I heard them too, this morning, which must mean, since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.
Paperback, 2019
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