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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

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read in June 2013

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Douglas Gibson said: " Read this for the first time about 10 years ago, re-read it this month for book club. Not only still holds up to the test of time, but holds up on a second read! "

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Fall for Him

by Andie Burke (Goodreads Author)

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The Institute

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

tags: funny, humor, prick, rude-quote, schoolboy-quote, witty-comebacks

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“Those who continue to live in the past will never have a future!”
― Beem Weeks

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“I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.”
― Lucille Bluth

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“The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: book, book-club, book-lunch, books, brain, companion, education, encouragement, encyclopedia, knowledge, library, life, lifestyle, read, reading, research, scholarship, search-light, story, study, study-time, thinking, time

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“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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