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April

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April is Currently Reading

April is currently reading

Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty Year Trail to Overnight Success

by Jeff Hiller (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, memoir, read-to-me

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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

by Kiran Desai

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Mar 11, 2026 05:22PM

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Libraries as Dysfunctional Organizations and Workplaces

by Spencer Acadia

bookshelves: currently-reading, essays, library, nonfiction

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April’s Quotes

“Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.”
― Wyndham Lewis

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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening, and Selected Stories

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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph

11244 likes

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural

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“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

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April’s Groups

Pearl Pushers — 27 members — last activity Oct 28, 2011 08:11PM
A book club spawned from the Genres class in which we read books, talk books, deconstruct genre and make general mischief.

BookTalking — 13 members — last activity Sep 22, 2011 10:25AM
a group of Seattle readers dedicated to the art of booktalking in the tradition of Nancy Pearl

Banned Books — 5179 members — last activity 6 hours, 56 min ago
To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.

Goodreads Librarians Group — 316994 members — last activity 33 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 222883 members — last activity Mar 19, 2026 03:23AM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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