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Kathy is Currently Reading

Kathy E is currently reading

What We Can Know

by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: copyright-2025, literary-fiction, science-fiction, list-tournament-of-books, audio, currently-reading

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

by Laurie Lee

bookshelves: classics, biography-autobiography-memoir, travel, nonfiction, set-europe-not-great-britain, currently-reading

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Jan 05, 2026 12:31AM

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Little Women (Penguin Classics)

by Louisa May Alcott

bookshelves: childrens, classics, author-women-before-1965, currently-reading

read in January 2017

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Dec 10, 2025 07:00PM

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“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

tags: reading

756 likes

“Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor

tags: math, relationships

23 likes

“Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.”
― Harriet Martineau

10 likes

“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

tags: death

327 likes

“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
― Hervé Le Tellier

1338 likes

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