Category: Books
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A Year in Books (2022)
I count the following favorite titles (out of a total ~100 read in 2022) as gifts—glimpses of grace that broke through the fortress of fog around my mind and somehow succeeded in offering me tiny oases amid madness. Perhaps you’ll resonate with something here that inspires your next read! *Some of these words are taken…
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A Year in Books (2021)
In 2021, I read approximately 27,071 pages across 105 books. Per habit, tradition, ritual, etc., I’ve compiled some of my favorites here for your perusal. I hope these stories share something of hope from my bookshelf (and reading community) to yours. *Some of these words are taken from my Goodreads reviews, lest you believe I’m…
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A Year in Books (2020)
This year was the year of story. I clung to the narratives I found veined across paper when it felt like my own was crumbling like so much sand between my fingers. In the midst of the wilderness — silences, lengthy depressive episodes, pixels, temptation, lonely nights and lonely walks, difficult but needed good-byes, a…
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some musings on reading & technology & God
My mother offered to buy me a Kindle as a Christmas present. I poured out my thanks but turned her down. “But you won’t have a lot of space in your tiny D.C. apartment for books,” she said. “I’ll pile my books on the floor if I have to,” I said. “It’ll be easier to…
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A Year in Books (2019)
2019 was the year I rediscovered my love for leisure reading, but a few of these titles were still read for a grade, ha. In the order I read them, here are some of the best texts I spent time with this year (out of fifty-nine… narrowing it down was hard) and a little blurb…
Eliana Chow 