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Jo is Currently Reading

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Country People

by Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, literary-fiction

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Feb 25, 2026 01:33PM

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, humorous, science-fiction

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Feb 21, 2026 03:42PM

“Having a grandmother is like having an army. This is a grandchild’s ultimate privilege: knowing that someone is on your side, always, whatever the details.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

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“They sat a moment in embrace of silent mutual comfort, which was, she often thought, the reward of those long married.”
― Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War

tags: marriage

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“Books speak to us thoughtfully, one at a time. They demand our attention. And they demand that we briefly put aside our own beliefs and prejudices and listen to someone else's. There's one questions I think we should ask one another a lot more often, and that's "what are you reading?”
― Will Schwalbe, Books for Living

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“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed.”
― Frederik Backman

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“How anyone could doubt the patriotism of my dachshunds is just shocking,”
― Helen Simonson, The Summer Before the War

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