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Tammy is Currently Reading

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Lincoln in the Bardo

by George Saunders

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— Apr 19, 2026 11:26AM

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Keckley

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“Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody to read it, does it make a sound?”
― Sherman Alexie, Ten Little Indians

tags: if-a-tree-falls-in-the-forest, sherman-alexie, ten-little-indians

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“A person who isn't reminded several times a day about the implications of the color of her skin has time to consider the implications of other things.”
― Camille T. Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

tags: race

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“Ironically, slavery's burdens - all that that she suffered while working with different yet demanding families - turned Harriet into a warrior, a warrior who was ready to slay the dragon of human bondage.”
― Erica Armstrong Dunbar, She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

tags: slavery

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“She’s told me that even though you won’t meet her tonight, she’s telling you her life story through the ingredients in this meal, and although you won’t shake her hand, you’ve shared her heart. Now please, continue eating and drinking, and thank you again.”
― J. Ryan Stradal, Kitchens of the Great Midwest

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“In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl

tags: information, library

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