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Melanie is Currently Reading

Melanie is currently reading

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

by Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)

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Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

by Stacey Abrams

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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

by Anthony Bourdain

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Melanie’s Quotes

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: love

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“I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.”
― Bette Davis

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“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: self-determination, self-esteem

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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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