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I discovered bell hooks through one of my favorite Buddhist meditation teachers, Sharon Salzberg. The most profound and yet simple point made by bell hooks is that love is often defined as a noun, and we would be more effective in applying it as a verb.

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"The sky was crying outside, and as she watched the drops come down, she thought: A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.”

LOVE this book ❤️

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As always, I start Team Jacob. Then I change to Team Edward about 80% in 🤣

This novel about generational drama I found uneven. The story in London was more compelling to me than the "Then" part set in Australia. Just did not work for me. 2.5 ?

Starting to catch up on sleep and reading after an amazing Texas Library Association conference. We had 4800 librarians, authors, vendors, and volunteers in Dallas learning, connecting, and sharing their stories. And so many books, y‘all! Here are a the ones that came home with me 😍

Ernaux writes about something so simple yet so passionate just what the title suggests. A love that consumes you. A relationship with a married man which becomes your entire being. Time was measured in two ways: being with him and not being with him. Raw emotions.
3.5/5🌟

Was very complex to think about but very enthralling to read. Pulled you in and developed a love/hate relationship with the narrator. Always was enticing and kept you in your toes fighting with your bias and personal opinions with the character—- develops a strong personal connection between reader and narrator!

Lunar New Year Love Story, by Gene Luen Yang (illustrated byLeUyen Pham) (2024)

Premise: A Vietnamese-American teenager is pulled in many directions after she learns of a family curse that means they are all destined to fail at love.

Review: This was a bit of a mixed bag for me, largely because there were a few too many things stuffed in this particular bag for my liking. Cont.