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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

by Sam Wasson (Goodreads Author)

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Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

by Carol Leonnig

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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan

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“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

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“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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