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Jay is Currently Reading

Jay is currently reading

Siege of Darkness (Forgotten Realms: Legacy of the Drow, #3; Legend of Drizzt, #9)

by R.A. Salvatore

bookshelves: 2026-books, dungeons-dragons, fantasy, fiction, currently-reading

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— May 29, 2026 06:53AM

May 29, 2026 06:53AM

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Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026-books, ebooks, fiction

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— May 29, 2026 03:16PM

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Catch 22

by Joseph Heller

bookshelves: 2026-books, historical-fiction, currently-reading

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— May 25, 2026 02:49PM

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Jay’s Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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