Ann

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Ann is Currently Reading

Ann is currently reading

The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau

by Kristin Harmel (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: historical-fiction, kindle, france, netgalley, novel, war, currently-reading

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Sep 30, 2025 06:16PM

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When the Moon Hits Your Eye

by John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: speculative-fiction, science-fiction, novel, netgalley, kindle, humor, currently-reading, audiobook

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Vesper Flights

by Helen Macdonald

bookshelves: essays, kindle, arc, nature, netgalley, nonfiction, science, currently-reading

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Ann said: " The 41 essays comprising this collection are short, lyrical pieces that go deep, enlarging a small thing to reveal how huge it really is. It takes time to digest each essay. There are so many large concepts within the brief pieces.
This is not a book ...more "

Sep 15, 2022 10:35AM · see review

Ann’s Quotes

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
― Susan B. Anthony

tags: bicycle, emancipation, women

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“My beard grows down to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
And down the road I goes.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

tags: humor

144 likes

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: wisdom

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“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."
I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess on the Brink

tags: expressions, men-and-women

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“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

tags: analogy, inspiration, machine, thought-provoking, usefulness

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