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Alphabetsoup , 8 months ago to Random stuff

Stories aren’t fiction. Stories are fabric. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them.

Sarah Addison Allen, Other birds

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Alphabetsoup , 9 months ago to bookstodon group

On their fruit farm a mother tells the story of her almost-famous young actress days, and its aftermath, to her three 20-something daughters. It's lockdown and they're trying to get the cherry harvest in with 1 migrant family instead of 12. Her good husband already knows the story. As masterful & beguiling as only Ann Patchett can. Five bright stars

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Alphabetsoup , 9 months ago to Random stuff

A young jewish woman's forbidden philosophical letters with heretic Spinoza from 1661 London & a shikse in 2001, near the end of her life, reading it, their entwined stories reminding that whatever goodness comes from religion is never enough to offset all the cruelty perpetrated by it & that women bear the brunt of it.
"A woman’s body, said the world, was a prison in which her mind must wither."
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