Category: Book Review: Non-Fiction
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
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Wow, No Thank You
“Hello, 911? I’ve been lying awake for an hour each night, reliving a two-second awkward experience I had in front of a casual acquaintance three years ago, for eight months.”
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Ayoade On Top
“Cinema helps us to remember that although we all have the right to shine, some of us must shine in the background, out of focus, and not too brightly.”
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Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism
“Leaving women out of the story isn’t a simple slip-up. It is a consequence of a world that tells us they just aren’t quite as important.”
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How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right: Essays on Modern Life
“In an age when we are ever more targeted and profiled and mined for information, reading a book allows you to be, for so long as the covers hold you, truly quiet and undisturbed.”
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”
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Be Your Own Best Friend
This book is a celebration of… Your best friend. Your cheerleader. Your soulmate. YOU.
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Why Rebel
“Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.”
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