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Shawn is Currently Reading

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Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

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— Sep 15, 2026 10:42PM

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Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

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Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, Book 1)

by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Goodreads Author)

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Shawn’s Notes & Highlights

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

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Of the many things Lucy was noticing to-day, not the least remarkable was this: the ghoulish fashion in which respectable people will nibble after blood.

Daisy Miller

by Henry James

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Uncle Vanya: A Play

by Anton Chekhov

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Shawn’s Quotes

“Things that have form will all disappear. But certain feelings stay with us forever.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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“Later that morning the memorial service for his friend Bruce Chatwin was to be held at the Orthodox church on Moscow Road in Bayswater.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

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“Not of exhaustion, but surrender, as though he had given over and relinquished completely that grip upon that blending of pride and hope and vanity and fear, that strength to cling to either defeat or victory, which is the I-Am, and the relinquishment of which is usually death.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

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“If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence, I would destroy the circumstances that had favoured me, and I would hurl myself down into the humble, speechless, insignificant darkness. I can only breathe in the lower regions.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

tags: jakob-von-gunten, robert-walser

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“He turned into the road at that slow and ponderous gallop, the two of them, man and beast, leaning a little stiffly forward as though in some juggernautish simulation of terrific speed though the actual speed itself was absent, as if in that cold and implacable and undeviating conviction of both omnipotence and clairvoyance of which they both partook known destination and speed were not necessary.”
― William Faulkner, Light in August

tags: awe-inspiring, slow-motion

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