"I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"
- Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

I'm Philippa, 24, and I'm from London.

~ Wednesday, June 20 ~
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I finished reading The Art of Fielding, which I loved and would definitely recommend. Now I am about 1/3 of the way through The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I don’t hate it, but am currently struggling to see why it won the Orange Prize. Hopefully it’ll get better.

I finished reading The Art of Fielding, which I loved and would definitely recommend. Now I am about 1/3 of the way through The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. I don’t hate it, but am currently struggling to see why it won the Orange Prize. Hopefully it’ll get better.

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~ Tuesday, June 19 ~
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“ You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul - not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those who knew you.
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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“ He’d never been able to talk to anyone, not really. Words were a problem, the problem. Words were tainted somehow - or no, he was tainted somehow, damaged, incomplete, because he didn’t know how to use words to say anything better than “Hi” or “I’m hungry” or “I’m not.
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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~ Monday, June 18 ~
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“ Of all the activities two people could do together in private, Affenlight had a special fondness for reading aloud. Maybe this was part of his instinct for solitude and self-enclosure; a way to reveal himself while hiding behind someone else’s words.
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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~ Saturday, June 16 ~
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Attention seeking dog does not approve of this book taking the attention away from her and so attempts to distract me.

Attention seeking dog does not approve of this book taking the attention away from her and so attempts to distract me.

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