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Years later, while retracing the history of my family’s journey into Rastafari, I would eventually come to understand that my mother felt called because she wanted to nurture, and my father felt called because he wanted to burn. Somewhere
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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
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― To Kill a Mockingbird
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
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Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
OBM Book Club
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A Goodreads Group for OBMs We will begin the discussion of January's book, Invisible Women, the first week of February. If anyone would like help a ...more
Chick Lit
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For all fans and writers of chick lit, especially those interested in seeing where this genre is going.
Q&A with Heidi Durrow author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
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Debut novelist Heidi Durrow answers your questions and responds to your posts about her novel, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books) which ...more
Constant Reader
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A forum for friendly discussion of classics, literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and short stories. We also love movies and art. Don't ask to join th ...more
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