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Olga is Currently Reading

Olga is currently reading

Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking

by Martin N. Seif

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Wellness

by Nathan Hill

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"What a fun read so far, and a fantastic satire on the millennial generation. Overthinking everything, wanting to be perfect, and forgetting to just breathe and live." — Apr 12, 2026 08:25AM

Mar 25, 2026 09:23AM

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The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)

by Elena Ferrante

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Dec 17, 2025 03:50AM

Olga’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

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Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

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Olga’s Quotes

“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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“•Good reasoning aims to convince, but it also lets itself be convinced. Simply put, it is the search for truth. •Bad reasoning has no interest in the truth; it is simply about wanting to be right.”
― Mikael Krogerus, The Communication Book: 44 Ideas for Better Conversations Every Day

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“We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?”
― Anne Michaels, Held

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“Celebrate people who own their responsibilities, take and defend clear positions, argue for their preferred strategies, and seek to move the dial.”
― Frank Slootman, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

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“It was easy to understand why women feared men with their physical strength and lust and social powers, but women, with their canny intuitions, were so much deeper: they could predict what was to come long before it came, dream it overnight, and read your mind.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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