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Blamp is Currently Reading

Blamp Head is currently reading

Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World

by Anne-Laure Le Cunff (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: self-improvement, currently-reading

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Jul 15, 2026 08:19PM

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: audiobook, disturbing, library, currently-reading, dystopian

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Jul 04, 2026 04:53AM

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The Idea of Australia: A Search for the Soul of the Nation

by Julianne Schultz

bookshelves: australia, politics, currently-reading

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Blamp’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection

Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection by Brandon Sanderson

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“There will be hundreds of thousands of reports and ledgers. And to state it explicitly, yes, that’s a number more than ten, so you can’t count to it.” “I’m not an idiot,” she snapped. “I got toes too.”

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Blamp’s Quotes

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: learning

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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

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“Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!”
― Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

tags: humor

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

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“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: humor, novelist, science-fiction

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