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A Fistful of Honey by Malena Crawford

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Maybe if they stopped reinforcing their own stereotypes, pulled their damn pants up, and acted like they had some common sense they wouldn’t get themselves killed, she thought.

Respectability politics.

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Seymone’s Quotes

“The eternal pauper in the great marketplace of ideas and of the world, I had nothing to teach anyone. I didn’t have anything anyone wanted.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

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“There is the old saying that work is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The 6 Types of Working Genius

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The Count of Monte Cristo Readalong — 122 members — last activity Dec 12, 2019 05:09PM
We'll be reading The Count of Monte Cristo over the months of October and November. Reading this popular, epic and lengthy classic will be challenging ...more

ReadSoulLit Readalong 2020 - The Last Thing You Surrender — 79 members — last activity Mar 07, 2020 11:01AM
Reading and discussing The Last Thing You Surrender

A Very Dickens Christmas Read-Along — 64 members — last activity Dec 28, 2014 02:52AM
The gathering place for all who will be joining me in the "A Very Dickens Christmas Read-Along" that I will be putting on. Here we will be reading 5 w ...more

For Love of a Book — 6434 members — last activity 8 minutes ago
This group was created to connect lovers of stories across the internet with their characters and plotlines, dreams and recommendations. Bibliophiles ...more

Literary Fiction by People of Color — 13030 members — last activity 49 minutes ago
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more

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