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Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Married … with Children, The King of Queens—ANY SITCOM. Literally just pick one randomly—you’ll probably see it. We don’t see the inverse too often. It goes too much
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"When it comes to a good book, I'm a people person. I'd be pleased to have the characters in this book as my friends. The title is well chosen - plain people, everyday circumstances, typical life challenges, but a song indeed."
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“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.”
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
― In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
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“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”
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“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
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Nordic Noir
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— last activity Sep 11, 2018 10:00PM
Did you enjoy Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy and want to explore more in the genre? Or just looking for something new to read
English Translations of Scandinavian/Nordic Mysteries & Thrillers
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A place to discuss Scandi Crime novels, which includes novels from: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark. Whether it's Smilia from Peter Hoeg's S ...more
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— last activity Jan 22, 2014 07:53AM
For employees of Simpson Housing
Adrienne’s 2018 Year in Books
Take a look at Adrienne’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Children's, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Romance, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, and Women's Fiction
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