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Chris is Currently Reading

Chris is currently reading

Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

bookshelves: adult, favorites, modern-classic, pulitzer, currently-reading, reread

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Chris said: " I usually hate westerns but this book had me hooked from the first page. A great read! "

Oct 28, 2015 02:41PM · see review

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6

by Beth Brower (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, adult, audio

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Apr 05, 2026 06:16PM

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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