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The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

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The Marvelous Land of Oz

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Values of Harry Potter: Lessons for Muggles

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Elaine rated a book 4 of 5 stars Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" by Judith Butler read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elaine made a comment on her review of Warm Bodies (Warm Bodies #1) "I can't wait to read it! I hope it's as good as it seems it will be. :)"
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Elaine wants to read The Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I'll apologize in advance for any typos, and the shorter than I wanted to write review, as I'm on my phone. I waited few days after finishing this to write a review. I will begin this review by stating that I never had a "hankering" to read this book,...more
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Elaine entered a giveaway How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Coraline wondered why so few of the adults she met made any sense.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“Go where there is no path and leave a trail.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: emerson

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“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

tags: depression, sadness

851 people liked it

“When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.”
― Roald Dahl

18 people liked it

“Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'.

'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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