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Tinkers

by Paul Harding

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Jan 07, 2012 03:55am

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Steampunk! an Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

by Kelly Link

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Nov 04, 2011 03:50am

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Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

by Jasper Fforde

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Maria Celina voted on a poll Do you like reading the book before or after seeing the movie? Sponsored by The Woman In ...more she voted for Before film
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Maria Celina is currently reading: Tinkers by Paul Harding	My rating:
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Maria Celina added a quote "If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?" — Yann Martel
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Maria Celina added a quote "If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams." — Yann Martel
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Maria Celina is currently reading: Steampunk! an Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link	My rating:
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Maria Celina marked as to-read: Beyond Trend: How to Innovate in an Over-Designed World by Matt Mattus (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Maria Celina is currently reading: Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Jasper Fforde	My rating:
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Maria Celina gave to: Ape House by Sara Gruen read in May, 2011	My rating:
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Maria Celina gave to: Room by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
This novel is a hell of a lot of book packed into its quantitatively mere three-hundred-or-so pages.
Apr 25, 2011 07:47am · see review

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“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: art , citizenship , politics

270 people liked it

“If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: hope , humanity , inspiration , religion

11 people liked it

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: emotions , film , humanity , philosophy

23 people liked it

“I have finally concluded, maybe that’s what life is about: there’s a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It’s as if those strains of music created an interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that’s it, an always within never.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

tags: life , philosophy

6 people liked it

“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

tags: architecture , art , sadness

31 people liked it

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