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Jennifer is Currently Reading

Jennifer is currently reading

Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

by Simon Welfare

bookshelves: currently-reading, historical, history, ireland, biog, irelan, sco, scotland, victorian, nobility, architecture, art, aristocracy, ar, decorating, dec, interior-design-deco, iculture, philanthropy, charity, chari, house-home, royals, royalty

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Moon Olympic Peninsula: Coastal Getaways, Rainforests & Waterfalls, Hiking & Camping (Travel Guide)

by Jeff Burlingame (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, travel-ref, travel, moon-guide, guidebook, washington, pacific-northwest, pnw, olympic-peninsula, national-parks, n, coastal-highway, rainforests, historical, history, hiking, road-trip

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“You cannot have two stories. You can end with only one.”
― Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune

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“Taking my vitamins in the morning reminds me of the sweet, chalky taste of the jar of Flintstones I snuck, in an act of delicious medicinal rebellion, eaten like candy, inches from the television screen.”
― Lucy Knisley, Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

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“I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own.
GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN”
― Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

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“Others said--and they meant it as a compliment--- that he was 'utterly unconventional in everything that he did.”
― Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

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“Well, Marcus Aurelius said,"Everything we hear is opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.”
― Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue

tags: facts-quotes, marcus-aurelius, opinion-v-fact, perspective

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European Royalty — 1561 members — last activity Dec 02, 2025 09:03AM
This is a group for anyone who enjoys fiction and non-fiction books about European royalty and history in general. We have a wide variety of discussio ...more

Non Fiction Book Club — 5022 members — last activity 1 hour, 52 min ago
This group is for anyone who enjoys Non Fiction. Genres discussed here include Histories, Autobiographies, Biographies, Memoirs, Science and Technolog ...more

Tudor History Lovers — 3114 members — last activity Dec 31, 2025 01:48PM
Anyone who enjoys historical fiction or history books about Tudor England will like this group. Whether you have been all the way to England just to t ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 306215 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more