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Robert is Currently Reading

Robert is currently reading:

Shadows in Flight (Shadow, #5)

by Orson Scott Card

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Feb 09, 2012 08:05am

Robert is currently reading:

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

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Feb 02, 2012 09:29am

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)

by J.K. Rowling

bookshelves: science-fiction-fantasy, currently-reading

read in January, 2001

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Jan 30, 2012 12:15pm

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Robert is currently reading: Shadows in Flight (Shadow, #5) by Orson Scott Card	My rating:
Feb 09, 2012 08:05am
Robert marked as to-read: FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell	My rating:
Feb 06, 2012 11:18am
Robert marked as to-read: Life's Lessons Learned: Personal Reflections by Dallin H. Oaks	My rating:
Feb 03, 2012 06:42pm
Robert is currently reading: The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli	My rating:
Feb 02, 2012 09:29am
Robert marked as to-read: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson	My rating:
Feb 01, 2012 01:36pm
Robert gave to: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3) by J.K. Rowling read in January, 2001	My rating:
Jan 30, 2012 12:15pm
Robert gave to: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald read in January, 2012	My rating:
I didn't remember much from reading this in highschool. It is well written; I don't like the characters much, but I don't think you're supposed to. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get out of it, other than a glimpse of the roaring 20's. People d...more
Jan 30, 2012 12:12pm · see review
Robert is currently reading: House of Glory: Finding Personal Meaning in the Temple by S. Michael Wilcox	My rating:
Jan 23, 2012 02:36pm
Robert gave to: Keys to the Demon Prison (Fablehaven, #5) by Brandon Mull read in March, 2010	My rating:
Jan 23, 2012 02:35pm
Robert gave to: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky read in January, 2012	My rating:
The plot rambled as much as the characters, none of whom I cared about. What was the point? Perhaps I'm missing something deeper, but all of the characters seemed deranged. I really liked Crime and Punishment as well as The Brothers Karamazov; thi...more
Jan 23, 2012 02:34pm · see review

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“Truth never seems obvious until it is known.”
― David Myers

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“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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“Drink the milk.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

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“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: humor , life

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“A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: inspirational , religious

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