Category: Book Discussion
Notes, thoughts, feedback from JMRL book groups
“The indiscriminate reading of novels is one of the most injurious habits to which a married woman can be subject.”
“The only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don’t fit the mold.”
“I don’t understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”
“The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy.”
“But when you’re inside it, the closet is vast.”
“People who see themselves as victims sometimes don’t notice when they become oppressors.”
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”
“He had rescued it once from the hands of jihadis in Timbuktu, and again from a waterlogged basement in Bamko.”
“We were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed.”
“So I wondered what was different about us-”
“More subtle than Kingsolver.”
