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Donna is Currently Reading

Donna Hall is currently reading

The Tobacco Wives

by Adele Myers (Goodreads Author)

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read in January 2023

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Donna Hall said: " Fantastic first book for this author. Great historical read. Adele Roberts makes the 1940’s come to life, while also showing how far we have come with women’s rights and big tobacco companies purposefully lying.

It is also amazing that this novel sta ...more "

Jan 25, 2023 08:31PM · see review

Donna’s Notes & Highlights

We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough

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“Houses are funny like that, aren’t they? Made new by new owners. All the history wiped away. Sometimes I wonder how much the buildings remember though. In the bricks, you know what I mean? Something must soak in. All those lives.”

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Donna’s Quotes

“You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

tags: friendship

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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.”
― E.B. White

tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure

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“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

tags: happiness, thinking, wisedom

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“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

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“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: invincible, teenagers, teens

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