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Tara Wilson Redd, a graduate of Reed College, grew up all over the United States, including in St. Louis, Seattle, and Central Oregon. An impenitent dilettante, she is interested in everything, but especially language, travel, and animals. When she is home from her adventures, she lives in Washington, DC where she works in libraries.

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	The Museum of Us 3.40 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (Johannes Cabal, #1)

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“She is a book jacket: all promise!”
― Tara Wilson Redd, The Museum of Us

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“We're just frame gazing at frames.”
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“Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

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“Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

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“O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!')”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

tags: philosophy-of-life

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“Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.”
― Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford

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