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"“The raw, ugly, mottled things you fear about yourself in your most private moments – what happens when someone says them aloud to you? The feeling like your skin slipped from your body, showing everything, red and veined.”
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"At 1:30 Saturday morning, I finished reading GIVE ME YOUR HAND. It was worth every one of those late minutes!
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“The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest leads to another interest, and this compounds into third. Next, you have so much interest there is no space in closet.”
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― Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers
“In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.”
― Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
― Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.”
― Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days.”
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
― Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
The Society of Tom Robbins Readers
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Not finding a group with which to discuss one of my favorite and most influential authors I reckon I should start one, hoping to begin a dialogue of i ...more
Goodreads Feedback
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This is a place to give feedback about Goodreads. Feature ideas, bugs, or any other suggestion for improvement. The Goodreads staff monitors this grou ...more
American Gods: All Gaiman, All The Time
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What? No group for Neil Gaiman fan(atic)s? For Shame! Well, now there is--a group for all things Gaiman. If you're a fan of his novels, his graphic no ...more
Mara’s 2017 Year in Books
Take a look at Mara’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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