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Mike is Currently Reading

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The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)

by R.J. Barker (Goodreads Author)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked ...more

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Mike’s Quotes

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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