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Michelle Schingler

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The Golems of Gotham

by Thane Rosenbaum

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Apr 11, 2014 11:28AM

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Forever

by Pete Hamill

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Michelle Schingler said: " Well written and very interesting, just has too much going on. Takes too long to get to the (magical) events alluded to in the jacket copy, and when it does, the reader simply isn't invested enough in the magical. Irish lore, Irish-Jewish connections ...more "

Dec 05, 2013 12:30PM · see review

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Nostalgia

by Dennis McFarland

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Michelle Schingler said: " *Goodreads giveaway reader*

Have not yet finished this book; preempting coming review with a comment. This is the only novel featuring Walt Whitman which I've read and appreciated for that portrayal. McFarland captures the spirit of the great grey poe ...more "

Dec 12, 2013 01:55PM · see review

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“The measure of a man’s estimate of your strength,” he finally told them, “is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

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“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

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“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
― Paul Theroux

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“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

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