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A Place to Hang the Moon

by Kate Albus (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, currently-reading, 2026

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read in January 2025

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Jessica O'Brien said: " Do you want the book version of a hug? A hug that acknowledges that life is hard and unfair but also full of love and lovely librarians and books? Here you go my friend. "

Jan 17, 2025 08:11PM · see review

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The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2)

by Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2023, currently-reading, 2026

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The Colony

by Annika Norlin

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026

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Jan 20, 2026 11:54AM

“-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other.
-The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

tags: running

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“How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?”
― Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned

tags: inspirational

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“We tell stories of other people's marriages, Detective Hastroll thought. We are experts in their parables and parabolas. Be can we tell the story of our own. If we could, Hastroll thought, there might be no murders. If we could, we might avoid our own cruelties and crimes.”
― Adam Ross

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“It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.”
― Adam Ross, Mr. Peanut

tags: marriage

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“I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

tags: insomnia, sleep

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