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Robert Sheard

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in San Francisco, The United States
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Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

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January 2009


BookTube Prize founder, recovering academic, bestselling author, unrepentant introvert.

He lives in Durham, NC.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Robert.Sheard
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Hi Robert, had to send you a new friend request, because somehow goodreads managed to delete you from my friends list. Don't know how that could happen. Did something like this ever happen to you here before?
Robert Sheard Not that I know of, but I have had books disappear and then reappear a few days later, so I’m not shocked it happened. Glad you’re back.
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G'day Robert. Are you accepting friend requests? There isn't an Add as Friend button on your profile. I'm an Aussie author (one book so far—second in the pipeline) and I'm hoping to connect with other writers as well as readers. Cheers. Thomas.
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The Unemotional Investor: S...
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Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
tags: culture, reading
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B.F. Skinner
“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
― B. F. Skinner
tags: achievement, great, love, reading, teach, trivial
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Walter Cronkite
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite
tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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Plutarch
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch
tags: curiosity, education, mentoring, mind, thinking
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Aristotle
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle
tags: education
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