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Spencer’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (265)
currently-reading‎ (7)
read‎ (681)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fiction‎ (129)
fantasy‎ (70)
young-adult‎ (62)
historical-fiction‎ (44)
non-fiction‎ (44)
action‎ (38)

adventure‎ (35)
middle-grade‎ (35)
history‎ (34)
children-s-book‎ (20)
biography‎ (18)
mystery‎ (14)
romance‎ (14)
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classics‎ (7)

learning‎ (4)
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religion‎ (3)
science‎ (3)
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geography‎ (2)
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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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Spencer said: " Reading it again for the third time (at least) "

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

“There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: friendship, quarrels

54 likes

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

tags: disability, life

66 likes

“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

67 likes

“The professor is not merely an information dispensing machine, but a skilled navigator of a complex landscape.”
― William Badke

tags: information-literacy, professor, research, student

6 likes

“We’ve come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.”
― William Badke, Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog

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