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General Recommendations
Mutual Aid
"Imagine a 'giving economy' where our immediate communities support us as we do them, with things like sharing dinners or mowing our neighbor's lawn. Imagine in some cases it's even deeper - driving together and sharing the chore of running errands..."
General Recommendations
Central Park Reads - Books We Enjoyed This Summer
""Cultivate above all things a taste for reading. There is no pleasure so cheap, so innocent, and so remunerative as the real, hearty pleasure and taste for reading. It does not come to every one naturally. Some people take to it naturally, an..."
"You might not think an entire book about fighting distraction--the course of one day, from waking to sleep, inside the head of an Oxford student trying to focus on writing an essay about Shakespeare's Sonnets, intentionally isolated in her room--w..."
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"Wow.
This book's short description includes the detail that Jane's father confines Jane's mother in a series of pneumatic tubes, tightly controlling her ability to interact with the family. "Confined to pneumatic tubes" may seem like a metaphoric..."
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