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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)

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The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

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Exactly who Merowdis was referring to when she said ‘just us’ wasn’t clear. The dogs and Apple assumed she meant them. The trees were quite sure she was addressing them. A spider making a web in a patch of bramble thought she must be ...more

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“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

tags: travel

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“Snow lands on top.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

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“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: cooking, food, vegetarian

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