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Nothing Special by Geoff Herbach
Nothing Special
by Geoff Herbach (Goodreads Author)
Sandy D. rated a book 4 of 5 stars
My Planet by Mary Roach
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
by Mary Roach (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Sandy D. rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Sandy D. rated a book 5 of 5 stars
The World's Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne
Sandy D. rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce #5)
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Sandy D. rated a book 5 of 5 stars
Square Peg by Todd Rose
memoir by a guy who grew up in the 80's and 90's with severe ADHD. He dropped out of high school after failing too many classes to graduate, but did get his GED, go on to college, and eventually grad school...ending up teaching at Harvard.

His story...more
Sandy D. rated a book 4 of 5 stars
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
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If I could use one word to describe this story, it would be "adorable". Eleanor and Park fell in love on the bus listening to '80's music and reading comic books. Can it get any cuter than th... "
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Cooked by Michael Pollan
Sandy D. rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Devil's Punch by Ann Aguirre
Devil's Punch (Corine Solomon, #4)
by Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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“For me, reading is so much more. Books teach you how other people think, and what they're feeling, and how they change from ordinary beings to extraordinary ones. Often they are so appealing and intelligent, you'd rather spend time reading about them than doing anything else.”
Jennifer Kaufman

Aldo Leopold
“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Ian Sansom
“[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.”
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Louise Dickinson Rich
“There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.”
Louise Dickinson Rich

Wendell Berry
“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
Wendell Berry, Farming: a hand book

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