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Jan is Currently Reading

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Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 13, 2026 07:25PM

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The Mountain in the Sea

by Ray Nayler (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 06, 2026 01:56PM

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House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

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Can nothing be ever truly expressed, rendered in its anonymous becoming, can no one ever render the babbling of the nascent moment, how is it that, born out of chaos, we can never encounter it again, no sooner do we look than order . . . ...more

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel

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Jan’s Quotes

“You can’t come back to something that is gone.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day life is perfect, and we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory – and the anticipation of other miracles – sustains us in the battle indefinitely.”
― John Nichols, A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country

tags: beauty, earth, harmony, magic, miracles, nature, perfection, sustenance

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“Listen deep down: most life happens on scales a million times smaller than ours.”
― Richard Powers, Orfeo

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“What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas’d the moment life appear’d. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
― Richard Powers, Orfeo

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