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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
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Adulting by Kelly Williams Brown
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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
This became one of my all-time favorites when I read it and wrote a report on it in 6th grade, and that was before I had ever really loved, lost, or suffered. The enjoyment of this book is much deeper the second time around. The whole concept of the...more
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"I relate to that; I mean it is NOT relaxing for me to take a bubble bath if I know that the house hasn't been cleaned up and I'll have to stay up that...more "
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168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
by Laura Vanderkam (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
This book presents a fantastic way of looking at organizing your life, though I admit that mostly it was just feel-good affirmations for me since I'm already an insane taskmaster about how I spend my time. I think you can spend time doing the things...more
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Why Cities Matter by Stephen T. Um
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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
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Lois Lowry
“The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things.

[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
Lois Lowry

Madeleine L'Engle
“We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.”
Madeleine L'Engle


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