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“Your parents are weirdos, in the best possible way. They do not celebrate birthdays; never in your life have you received a present on the tenth of December. Instead, you are given books on the days that their authors were born.”
― Ajax Penumbra 1969
― Ajax Penumbra 1969
“Grandpa says that once a lion gets a taste for human blood, it won’t stop until it’s eaten an entire village.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“that they’ll die poor if they never visit the Smokey Mountains,”
― Crossing the Lines
― Crossing the Lines
“They saw the lion—its body the size of a cow—drag his grandmother into the thorny trees, then toss her body into the bush like a mouse. It then turned and faced its challengers, let out a terrible roar, and disappeared with its kill. The poor woman’s body was never recovered.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
“The Arabs from Zanzibar convinced them to become Muslim, then recruited them to capture our Chewa people and put us into bondage. They raided our villages, killed our men, then sent our women and children across the lake in boats. Once there, the slaves were shackled by the neck and made to march across Tanzania. This took three months. Once they reached the ocean, most of them were dead. Later on, the Yao captured and traded us to the Portuguese in exchange for guns, gold, and salt.”
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
― The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
Gail’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gail’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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28 friends
663 books
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188 friends
474 books
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30 friends
3,553 books
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279 friends
436 books
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53 friends
73 books
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92 friends
174 books
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122 friends
7 books
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20 friends
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