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message 1301: by Lilly #2 (new)

Lilly #2 (stormiiclouds) | 278 comments It only took me about fifteen minutes to figure out the "rules" of the game and to sort out how the scoring system worked.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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message 1302: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "S'right."

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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message 1303: by Sandy (last edited Dec 19, 2020 08:10PM) (new)

Sandy | 471 comments Conquest of mind is the victory over the world!

Science, Religion & Spirituality by Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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message 1304: by ☯Emily (last edited Dec 20, 2020 10:24AM) (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Sandy wrote: "Conquest of mind is the victory over the world!

Science, Religion & Spirituality by Sukhraj S. Dhillon STILL PROMOTING!!!

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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

The Giver by Lois Lowry

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message 1305: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Don't forget to ask him about that Malthusian belt," said Fanny.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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message 1306: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments I WOULD BE A CONDUCTORETTE AND SLING A FULL MONEY CHANGER FROM MY BELT. (Yes, it is all caps.)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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message 1307: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "They're being death-conditioned."

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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message 1308: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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message 1309: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments As a fierce opponent of such vengeance, Hamilton busied himself defending persecuted Tories and halting their banishment.

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

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message 1310: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "It was from another community."

The Giver by Lois Lowry

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message 1311: by Joyce (last edited Dec 24, 2020 11:03AM) (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments The head of one of the regular indoor messengers attached to Tellson's establishment was put through the door, and the word was given: "Porter Wanted!"

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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message 1312: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Sarah, you must not."

Longbourn by Jo Baker

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message 1313: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd The crowd kept up their applause.

Indian Horse

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message 1314: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments Look at me, already a sous-chef at the age of eight.

The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

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message 1315: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Momma says we'll get a basketball hoop on wheels.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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message 1316: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5212 comments And then we really must get back.

Believe Me by; J.P. Delaney

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message 1317: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments I had to disconnect from the safety of the virtual world and be present in the real world, with him.

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

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message 1318: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Not her."

Beloved by Toni Morrison

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message 1319: by Joyce (last edited Jan 05, 2021 07:23AM) (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Weddings - that's where I got to enjoy watching artistry in motion."

The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

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message 1320: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd "Mostly, they believe fundamentally in the inherent capacity of every human being to contribute."

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz

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message 1321: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments He heard her singing.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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message 1322: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments He heard her singing.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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message 1323: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd "But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society."

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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message 1324: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments He felt his chest chopped down and split apart.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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message 1325: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd "But multitasking is one of the great myths of the modern age."

Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan

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message 1326: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, " how can you be so tiresome!"

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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message 1327: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments All were part of the power bloc that young Henry felt he had been denied.

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones

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message 1328: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Joyce wrote: "All were part of the power bloc that young Henry felt he had been denied.

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Mildred fidgeted.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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message 1329: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd "There is a great deal of evidence that negative emotional states of mind narrow our focus."

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz

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message 1330: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments There was a vulture that hacked at my feet.

Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka

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message 1331: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments No books nearby with this many pages.


message 1332: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd 'You know there are tactics in these things,' said Mr. Brooke; 'meeting people half-way - tempering your ideas - saying, "Well now, there's something in that", and so on.

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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message 1333: by Joyce (last edited Jan 24, 2021 10:59AM) (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Never know your luck around here," Louise said, "what with all the smugglers' tunnels pitted along the coast."

The Lake House by Kate Morton

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message 1334: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Why?"

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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message 1335: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd The chaplain hesitated, feeling himself on unfamiliar ground again.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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message 1336: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "Where's the man with the megaphone?"

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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message 1337: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5212 comments "You devils!" he said, shaking his fist in their direction.

The Cat Who Blew the Whistle by: Lilian Jackson Braun

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message 1338: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments Gave himself a snake burn.

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

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message 1339: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "That's the same patent bonus they paid anybody in the company."

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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message 1340: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd Sure, it was cheesy, but I had no budget for props.

The CEO and the Monk: One Company's Journey to Profit and Purpose by Robert B Catell and Kenny Moore

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message 1341: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5212 comments As they walked, Assunta rehearsed things she could say to Antonio's mother, whom she barely knew.

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by: Juliet Grames

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message 1342: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd The early days of the project were now filled with meetings, informal conversations, and just watching the way the world worked for women in Kigali.

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz

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message 1343: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments He stood knee-deep in the central grass, looking at his hidden feet, trying to pretend he was in a tent.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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message 1344: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments His mother is obsessed with social decorum, his father a banker who stays in Boston in a small apartment several nights a week--
"when he has to work late."

A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline

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message 1345: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments In the dark streets behind the San Tirso church, under its archways, the wraiths gathered.

Longbourn by Jo Baker

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message 1346: by Joyce (last edited Jan 29, 2021 06:12AM) (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments At the lift gates the presiding porter gave him the information he required, and he dropped down to ward 81 ( a Galloping Senility ward, the porter explained) on the seventeenth floor.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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message 1347: by Marc (new)

Marc Todd The 100 million-plus cubic yards of dirt they moved, if compacted together, would form an asteroid one-third of a mile across.

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
talking about the building of the Panama Canal

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message 1348: by Eyvonne (new)

Eyvonne | 5212 comments I think that in a sense Mother had not acknowledged to herself that we were really leaving.

A Summons to Memphis by: Peter Taylor

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message 1349: by ☯Emily (new)

☯Emily  Ginder | 115446 comments "But I tell you smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one."

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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message 1350: by Joyce (new)

Joyce (arscott53) | 15517 comments "Not even four months."

The Lake House by Kate Morton


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