Mark Kelly

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Mark is Currently Reading

Mark Kelly is currently reading

Alexander Hamilton

by Ron Chernow

bookshelves: nonfiction, history, biography, currently-reading, audiobook

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Apr 12, 2026 11:56AM

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The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, fantasy, fiction, ebook

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The Visitor (Animorphs, #2)

by K.A. Applegate

bookshelves: science-fiction, young-adult, ebook, fiction, currently-reading, audiobook

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read in July 2021

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Mark’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian

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The real issue is the amount of time and money required for a zealous defense and public defenders’ inability to provide it, while prosecutors have an entire police agency as their investigative arm, whatever it costs. When defendants talk ...more

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Mark’s Quotes

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: albus-dumbledore, courage, friends

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“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore, strength, unity

10773 likes

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

297 likes

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo-baggins, dissipation, old-age

1159 likes

“For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: hope, inspirational

1628 likes

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