Bill Webster

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Bill is Currently Reading

Bill Webster is currently reading

Falling in Love (Commissario Brunetti, #24)

by Donna Leon

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Oct 01, 2026 11:21AM

Bill Webster is currently reading

Dead Money

by Jakob Kerr (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 25, 2026 12:57PM

Bill’s Notes & Highlights

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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Don Fabrizio could not know it then, but a great deal of the slackness and acquiescence for which the people of the South were to be criticized during the next decades was due to the stupid annulment of the first expression of liberty ever ...more

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Bill’s Quotes

“You want to ask the universe what everyone else wants to ask the universe. Why are we born, why do we die, why anything has to be. And all the universe has to say in reply is: I don't know, arsehole, stop asking. The Afterlife is as confusing as the Before Death, the In Between is as arbitrary as the Down There. So we make up stories because we're afraid of the dark.”
― Shehan Karaunatilaka

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