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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)

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Der Archipel Gulag II

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Emma’s Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom

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“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

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“I don't even glance at the herbal teas, I go straight for the real, vile coffee. Jitter in a cup. It cheers me up to know I'll soon be so tense.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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English Teachers Anonymous — 8 members — last activity Jun 20, 2013 10:28AM
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SEED Reads - Upper School — 511 members — last activity Oct 04, 2016 06:07AM
This is a group of SEED students and teachers who can't wait till September to talk about all the books they're reading over the summer. Post here wit ...more

SEED 8.3 BOOK REVIEWS — 15 members — last activity Oct 22, 2014 12:45PM
An online community where our class can review their novels.

Family Collab — 2 members — last activity Jan 17, 2021 09:32AM
Changing the stars, one book at a time.

Oprah's Book Club (Official) — 86000 members — last activity 11 hours, 24 min ago
Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more

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