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Candace Lee Van Auken
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Kite Maker
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| There are a few authors whose work has so touched or moved or awed me that I have this tendency to hang onto their works, unread, saving them like some literary squirrel might hoard the very best nuts. Anshaw won her place in this group with her firs ...more | |
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Candace wants to read 50 books in the 2017 Reading Challenge
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| This wasn't a fun book to read. It's horrifying, and occasionally a bit of a slog. Still, the story it tells is a very important one. It's so easy to criticize President Obama for commuting so many sentences, and it's easy to forget that sometimes, p ...more | |
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| This was one of those books that's more engaging in how it's told than in the exact story of it. The author tells two stories, alternating between a story that happened perhaps eight or ten years in the past and one that is happening now in the prese ...more | |
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| There are good things and bad things about this lesbian romance. At points the writing is good, while at others it's terrible -- clichéd, belabored, and abusing usage and mixing/changing tenses. The editing is a fail, in that typos, wordos, and extra ...more | |
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| I think that the American publishers of Anne Holt's Hanne Wilhelmsen books were extremely smart to release #8 in the series first. It functioned as a standalone novel, but left the obsessive reader (like me) dying to know the back story. So I started ...more | |
“The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
― Dalai Lama XIV
“A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably”
― William Penn
― William Penn
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
― William Penn
― William Penn
“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
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