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Carolyn is Currently Reading

Carolyn is currently reading

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

by Dan Egan

bookshelves: currently-reading, nature, non-fiction, science-medicine, michigan

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Jul 31, 2018 02:14PM

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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)

by Ransom Riggs

bookshelves: currently-reading, british-fiction, historical-fiction, mystery, fantasy

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Jan 02, 2016 01:53PM

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Walden or, Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

bookshelves: currently-reading, classics, non-fiction, memoir, young-adult-middle-grade

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Carolyn’s Quotes

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

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“We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.”
― Bill Clinton

tags: cooperation, difference, humanity, society

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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