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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell - flora & phrase

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

The book's title reaches out to us workaholics who have never known how to do nothing, who fear it, and who pad our lives with busy-ness for reasons we can't quite...

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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

The book's title reaches out to us workaholics who have never known how to do nothing, who fear it, and who pad our lives with busy-ness for reasons we can't quite...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - flora & phrase

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca...

Skloot spent ten years researching Henrietta Lacks and HeLa while gaining the trust of the Lacks family to tell their story, which resulted in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a 381-page biography that...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca...

Skloot spent ten years researching Henrietta Lacks and HeLa while gaining the trust of the Lacks family to tell their story, which resulted in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a 381-page biography that...

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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - flora & phrase

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

This is one of those books that deserves every bit of hype it got, and then some. It's a memoir unlike anything I've ever read: oscillating from first to second...

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

This is one of those books that deserves every bit of hype it got, and then some. It's a memoir unlike anything I've ever read: oscillating from first to second...

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson - flora & phrase

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

This book is honest and smart, braiding together the theoretical, personal, and poetic. Read it if you're looking for something challenging and original on queerness and motherhood. I suggest you...

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

This book is honest and smart, braiding together the theoretical, personal, and poetic. Read it if you're looking for something challenging and original on queerness and motherhood. I suggest you...