Take a look at my library 🙂. Disclaimer: these are not all the books I read. In between dense reads, I often enjoy picking up a cheesy romance novel!
#ethics
#biography
#death
#biography
The 5-star rating system should be taken with a grain of salt! I tend to do a lot of research on books I decide to read, so they end up being great reads. The quotes are favorite excerpts.
(ordered by most recent)
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi #medicine
#death
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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer #religion
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Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson **#race
#justice
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou #memoir
#race
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Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh #religion
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Without the Mask by Charlie Bird #memoir
#religion
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<aside> ✍🏼 “She loved to help others, but accepting help made her feel weak and incapable, especially at a time when she wanted to feel strong and confident.”
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls #memoir
#family
#mentalillness
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates #race
#biography
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<aside> ✍🏾 “I am not a cynic. I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know.”
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<aside> ✍🏾 “No one told those little white children, with their tricycles, to be twice as good.”
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Playing the Wh*re: The Work of Sex Work by Melissa Gira Grant #feminism
#politics
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<aside> ✍🏼 “… by obsessively displaying dirty pictures, filmed evidence, confessions, and exhibits, the prostitution trial reveals itself as structured around the very fetishism it sets itself to isolate and punish.”
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