What I'm Reading

Date	Book
2024 July	The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman
	Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
	The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien
	All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr
	A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
	Post Office Charles Bukowski
	The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
	1984 George Orwell
	My Body Emily Ratajkowski
	Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
	The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben
	The Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

My TBR List (TBR stands for "to be read")

Manifest: 7 Steps to Living Your Best Life (Roxie Nafousi)
The Art Thief (Michael Finkel)
Seven Brothers (Alexis Kivi)
The Midnight Library (Matt Haig)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
The Year of the Locust (Terry Hayes)
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
EMDR Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures (Francine Shapiro)

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My other goal is to read at least 10 of some of the best Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. So far I’ve only read 2 out of the 10 on this list (and they’re both so good!)

1. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
2. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
3. "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck
4. "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
5. "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker
6. "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
7. "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead
8. "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon
9. "The Hours" by Michael Cunningham
10. "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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Inspiring lines that speak to me

"You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods...you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive. I threw myself into it. Then I tried like mad to cope with it." ― Audrey Hepburn

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Your energy is a gift. Not everyone deserves to have access to it. Not everyone deserves to emotionally and mentally benefit from it. Save your energy for those who genuinely care for the evolution of your spirit.

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“I’d always imagine myself as someone who had ideas and make decisions” ― Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
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“He was a gangling creature of potential, a barrel of dynamite waiting for someone or something to light his hues; but no one did.” ― Neil Gaiman, Stardust
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“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery." — Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
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“They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented - there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what is beautiful anyway but a set of letters strung together to make a word? Be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.” ― Nikita Gill
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"The amount of strength it takes to choose to be alone instead of poorly surrounded, is extremely underrated. If you were strong enough to choose yourself, I honor you." ― unknown