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That One Patient: Doctors and Nurses’ Stories of the Patients Who Changed Their Lives Forever

by Ellen de Visser

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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

by Charlotte Gordon (Goodreads Author)

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Illness: The Cry of the Flesh

by Havi Carel

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Lisa’s Quotes

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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Banbury book group — 8 members — last activity Jul 13, 2020 12:30PM
A book group meeting in Banbury once a month! We'll use this page to post about the monthly meet ups - when and where, what we liked/didn't like and a ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 124277 members — last activity 6 minutes ago
A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to ...more

The Sword and Laser — 22912 members — last activity 31 minutes ago
Online discussion forum for the Sword and Laser podcast and monthly book club pick. Subscribe to the audio podcast: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podca ...more

Banging Book Club — 3904 members — last activity Dec 25, 2020 08:25AM
Created by Hannah Witton, Leena Norms and Lucy Moon. This is a monthly book club where we read books about sex! Fiction, non-fiction, educational, h ...more