Spencer

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Spencer is Currently Reading

Spencer is currently reading

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: currently-reading, british-novels, action, adventure, classics, fantasy, fiction, middle-grade

Reading for the 2nd time

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Aug 18, 2025 12:25PM · see review

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

bookshelves: currently-reading, action, classics, fiction

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Jun 23, 2025 02:53PM

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The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

bookshelves: currently-reading, poetry, british-novels, fiction

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Jun 22, 2023 12:50PM

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Spencer’s Quotes

“...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
― William Badke

tags: information, information-literacy, research, students

6 likes

“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: experience, surprise

117 likes

“New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

88 likes

“Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: disability, life

65 likes

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: babies, birth, clocks, coincidence, famous-beginnings, heroes, midnight

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