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SP’s Bookshelves

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fantasy‎ (66)
nonfiction‎ (66)
science-fiction‎ (62)
fantasy_urban‎ (51)
history‎ (45)
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mystery‎ (17)
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science‎ (14)

philosophy‎ (10)
disaster‎ (8)
dystopia‎ (8)
time_travel‎ (8)
biography‎ (7)
magical_realism‎ (7)
classic‎ (5)
economics‎ (5)
fiction_literary‎ (5)
fitness‎ (5)
religion‎ (5)

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fiction_military‎ (3)
self_help‎ (3)
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SP’s Quotes

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: individuality

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“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

tags: melancholy

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“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: arthur-dent

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“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

tags: brain, information, internet

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“Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

tags: books, humor, reading

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