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Michael is Currently Reading

Michael is currently reading

Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)

by Marissa Meyer (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 16, 2026 10:03PM

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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)

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The Blue Knight

by Joseph Wambaugh

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Michael’s Quotes

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

tags: life

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“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

tags: philosophy

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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

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Turn of a Page — 3419 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Welcome! We are a challenge group. We offer new challenges monthly, readathons, buddy reads, BOTM, SOTM, and a badge system we call Buttons!

The History Book Club — 26245 members — last activity 19 hours, 53 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

The Bookworm Challenge — 283 members — last activity 19 hours, 3 min ago
A bunch of challenges to rev your literary engine. Vroom Vroom. To make things interesting you can earn points.

THE WORLD WAR TWO GROUP — 2738 members — last activity 9 minutes ago
A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more

101 Books to Read Before You Die — 277 members — last activity Jun 19, 2026 08:11AM
This is a group where we meet online to discuss books from the 101 books to read before you die list. We read one book from the list per month. To com ...more

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