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Martha is Currently Reading

Martha is currently reading

The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: recommended-by-pals, currently-reading, gave-up

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Jun 07, 2024 10:08AM

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The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

bookshelves: science-fiction, the-end-is-nigh, currently-reading

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Jun 24, 2015 09:03AM

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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith

bookshelves: geekery, sfpl, currently-reading

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Jan 26, 2013 12:03AM

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Martha’s Quotes

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“Did you ever read the Bible? I mean sit down and read it like it was a book? Check out Lamentations. That's where we're at, pretty much. Pretty much lamenting. Pretty much pouring our hearts out like water.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

tags: bible, hearts, lamenting, pretty-much

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“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

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“The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.”
― Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

tags: finance

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