James Surprenant

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James is Currently Reading

James Surprenant is currently reading

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Star Wars Novelizations, #2.5)

by Karen Traviss (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, novels, sci-fi

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Mar 29, 2026 02:21PM

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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by victor-hugo

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— Jan 11, 2026 10:47AM

Jan 05, 2026 05:36AM

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American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2025

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James’s Quotes

“the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.”
― Marcus J. Borg, Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most

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“Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.”
― Jonathan Sacks

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“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.”
― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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“When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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