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Robert is Currently Reading

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Children of the Arbat

by Anatoly Rybakov

bookshelves: currently-reading, eastern-europe, russian, historical-fiction

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Mar 10, 2026 06:59PM

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Thank You for Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia

by Dubravka Ugrešić

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Mar 08, 2026 08:31AM

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Let History Judge

by Рой Медведев

bookshelves: currently-reading, eastern-europe, history, russian, ussr

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Robert’s Quotes

“Omnis natura, inquantum natura est, bonum est.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo

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“Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.”
― Victor Hugo

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“The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: great-books

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“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism

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“Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

tags: gratitude, thanksgiving

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Robert’s Groups

STA Readers' Forum — 14 members — last activity Aug 20, 2012 02:04PM
St. Albans faculty, student, and alumni reading seminar.

STA Summer Book Club — 16 members — last activity Jun 07, 2010 10:29AM
Get off your butt and read.

St. Albans Military History Reading Group — 8 members — last activity Apr 13, 2020 09:29AM
With all of us quarantined at home, we figured we'd start a St. Albans military history reading group. Check the "general" discussion tab below for re ...more

Great War (1914-1918): The Society and Culture of the First World War — 482 members — last activity Dec 06, 2021 05:06AM
A place to discuss the cultural milieu of the Great War (also referred to as the First World War, World War I, WWI, World War One). The intent of this ...more

The History Book Club — 26032 members — last activity 3 hours, 43 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

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