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Catherine Bishop
https://www.goodreads.com/readingcrazypatterns
“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
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“Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.”
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“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
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“History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. 'This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar' she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
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Taunton Bookclub
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— last activity Nov 18, 2025 11:08PM
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Catherine’s 2025 Year in Books
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