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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— Mar 09, 2026 08:58PM

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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

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“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

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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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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

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