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Reading for the 2nd time
read in October 2017
Jan C said:
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This is the book where Sayers introduces us to mystery author Harriet Vane. She is about to be convicted of murdering a former lover (possibly scandalous in itself) when Lord Peter Wimsey declares his love for her. The Dowager Duchess likes her, too.
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
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Lucas, in his story of four friends on the cusp between youth and adulthood, captured on film the America that was poised to reelect Nixon, the America that saw change as something that happened somewhere else.
American Graffiti
“So many books, so little time.”
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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