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Michelle Schingler

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Michelle Schingler is currently reading

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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read in December 2013

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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

Michelle’s Quotes

“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

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

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“Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid”
― Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint

tags: humour, jewish

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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: apocryphal, feminism

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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

tags: fear

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