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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
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| 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 | |
"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: You Have More Time Than You Think
by Laura Vanderkam (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
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| 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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“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
[from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]”
― Lois Lowry
“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
― Madeleine L'Engle
