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DaNae is Currently Reading

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Making Money (Discworld, #36; Industrial Revolution, #5; Moist von Lipwig, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

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May 16, 2026 05:49AM

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Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost, #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer (Goodreads Author)

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Leaves of Grass: Unabridged Deathbed Edition with 400 Poems

by Walt Whitman

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DaNae’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Soul Music (Discworld #16; Death, #3)

Soul Music (Discworld #16; Death, #3) by Terry Pratchett

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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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“Oh, the pathos of it! - haggard, drawn into fixed lines of unutterable sadness, with a look of loneliness, as of a soul whose depth of sorrow and bitterness no human sympathy could ever reach. The impression I carried away was that I had seen, not so much the President of the United States, as the saddest man in the world.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

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“Adopted is not an adjective,” he said. “Joellen says that. It’s an event that happens, not who you are. As an adjective it implies inherent bullshit about a person that isn’t true. A person is not ‘adopted.’ They were adopted. Words matter.”
― Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

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“Worst of all, some sixth graders hadn’t started wearing deodorant yet, and they really needed it.”
― Mary E. Lambert, Distress Signal

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“No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

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“As far as I could tell, this movie was about parents who had two cute children they were determined to spend as little time with as possible. And so they hire a woman who constantly gaslights the kids and makes them doubt their own sanity; she takes them on fantastical trips, then says they never happened. She gives them the powers of flight and time travel, encourages them to surrender to the magic and enjoy themselves, then acts all affronted and accuses them of lying when they mention how fun the adventure was. The whole movie seemed to be introducing the concept of what a nanny was and, at the same time, arguing against ever employing one.”
― Jennifer Longo, What I Carry

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