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Into the Deep: A Memoir from the Man Who Found Titanic

by Robert D. Ballard

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Jun 20, 2023 07:42PM

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Cain's Jawbone

by E. Powys Mathers

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Anu said: " My 2023 project is to read and "crack" this book. Hopefully, this year is less of a shitshow than the last, and I actually get to finish my project. See you all on the other side!

Honestly however, I'm about 15 pages down, and although I can't really ...more "

Jan 29, 2023 01:50AM · see review

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Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

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"She sighed. It didn't matter. Tomorrow was Saturday and she would sleep in as long as she liked. She could read the paper in bed with the radio playing softly in the background and no one to interrupt her tranquil routine.

A girl after my own heart, this one. :')" — May 25, 2016 07:58AM

May 21, 2016 11:18AM

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“Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

tags: insightful, lonely, thought-provoking

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“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

tags: ira, ireland, northern-ireland, the-troubles, violence, war

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“I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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