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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)

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Jen’s Quotes

“When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

tags: family, guilt, women

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“I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).”
― Connie Willis, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

tags: agatha-christie, plot, plotting

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“I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

tags: cockroaches, first-sentence, insects, transformation

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FABClub (Female Authors Book Club) — 650 members — last activity May 16, 2025 05:56PM
We read books written by female authors and then we talk about them. All gender identities are welcome to become members of this group. All book selec ...more

My Story Book Club — 103 members — last activity Mar 28, 2013 05:52PM
My Story is a Young Adult online LGBT book club featuring a LGBT author every month. Lambda Literary Foundation’s My Story Book Club, in association w ...more

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