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Melody’s 2025 Year in Books
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I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU, ALRIGHT?! (People who are awesome have friends who are awesome.)
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This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
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If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World
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Johnny Appleseed & Other American Legends
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The Gingerbread Boy and Other First Tales
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Paul Bunyan and Other American Tall Tales
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Animal Tales: Raccoon, Bear and Coyote
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Issue 33: 10 Ways to Feel Cozier This Christmas
A few years ago I read a book about the Danish concept of hygge, which roughly translates to coziness or charm or, I don’t know, specialness. Hard to pin down and harder to say—aim for a Viking horn–like “HYOO-guh”—the concept nevertheless stayed with me for putting a name to a kind of cozy contentment I’d experienced before and kept trying to recapture, most notably at Christmas.
Hygge is th
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| One of the most glorious books I've read in a while — who knew women in a convent in Australia would be so relatable? ...more | |
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| Required reading if you have a chronic illness or know someone who does—which you definitely do. | |
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| A quirky little book about decluttering, yes, but also pets and sailing and family memories and art and how the author's kids took too long to give her grandchildren, plus some weird Swedish recipes at the end (but it did make me want to declutter). ...more | |
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| The comma splices were annoying, there were other problems too, the fact that I still don't really know what happened is one of them. ...more | |
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| A literary researcher in the dystopian future becomes obsessed with a poet and his wife from our day, giving us big themes to dig our teeth into: the limitations of biography and history, the enduring power of the humanities, and our inability to rec ...more | |
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Poems like "Ode to Joy" make me want to write poetry: Friedrich Schiller called Joy the spark of divinity but she visits me on a regular basis, and it doesn’t take much for her to appear— the salt next to the pepper by the stove, the garbage man ascending ...more |
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| Four aging women and their card games, lunches out, choir concerts, hospital visits, calls with adult kids, dogs, cats, injuries, forgetfulness, drives, grocery shopping, regrets, joys — as close to real life as I've ever encountered in a novel, and ...more | |
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| Absolutely wrecked that this intimate, tender novel, which walks you unflinchingly through the days before and after the death of a young husband and father, was published posthumously. | |
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| You have to love a novel that features drunk Richard Burton as a pivotal character, an Italian coastal setting, and plenty of messy, interesting people trying (or not) to do the right thing with their lives. | |
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| The ending—when Hilary Mantel imagines herself carrying the books "that God willing, I am going to write" despite illness and heartache—is so satisfying when you realize she went on to write the Wolf Hall trilogy after this. ...more | |
“What could I do to feel happier living here? …
1. Walk more.
2. Buy local.
3. Get to know my neighbors.
4. Do fun stuff.
5. Explore nature.
6. Volunteer.
7. Eat local.
8. Become more political.
9. Create something new.
10. Stay loyal through hard times.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
1. Walk more.
2. Buy local.
3. Get to know my neighbors.
4. Do fun stuff.
5. Explore nature.
6. Volunteer.
7. Eat local.
8. Become more political.
9. Create something new.
10. Stay loyal through hard times.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“In a hypermobile society, uniformity passes for familiarity.”
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
― This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
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“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
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“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
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“Constructionism is the recognition, backed up by the last half century of brain research, that people don’t passively take in reality. Each person actively constructs their own perception of reality. That’s not to say there is not an objective reality out there. It’s to say that we have only subjective access to it. “The mind is its own place,” the poet John Milton wrote, “and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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