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Quietly Hostile

Book Review: Samantha Irby’s Quietly Hostile is a joyful exercise in oversharing

Quietly Hostile is Samantha Irby‘s fourth collection of hilarious, off-the-wall personal essays. Almost blog-style in its randomness, each chapter takes us on a journey through a variety of Irby’s loves, hates, flights of fancy, reimagined TV episodes, lists of food, embarrassing anecdotes, and misadventures in bodily functions that will give you whiplash as they switch…

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Saving Time

Book Review: Jenny Odell’s Saving Time rethinks our cultural and personal relationships with time

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell is a deeply thought-provoking book that challenges the way we perceive time and its relationship to our lives, work, and the environment. The author explores vital topics like climate change, equality, death, and culture in an intense, but engaging manner that will make readers…

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