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Tim is Currently Reading

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The Last Contract of Isako

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

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May 12, 2026 02:22PM

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The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

by Nick Thorpe

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Apr 27, 2026 04:01PM

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Civilized Civil War: How Developed Countries Are Vulnerable to Foreign Instigated Violent Internal Conflict

by Aaron L. Hirschi

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“A bedrock tenet of communications intelligence was that the enemy must always be encouraged to “feel safe,” and never given cause to suspect that his radio transmissions were less than impenetrable.”
― Ian W. Toll, Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942

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“On average, grasses produce three or four times more roots by weight than they do leaves and stems, giving them a root-to-shoot ratio that is ten times as high as that of a forest.”
― Candace Savage, Prairie: A Natural History of the Heart of North America

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“The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.”
― John Hooper, The Italians

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“A youth can allow itself to be somewhat pleasant with us, since it's so convinced, that it's gonna be free the day after our funeral.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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“Only one story—the story of the dinosaurs themselves—had a happy ending. Happy in comparison, at any rate. Dinosaurs will be famous forever, first of all, and, what is more important, they were granted an enviable finale. Dinosaurs reigned unchallenged for an unimaginable one hundred million years. Then, in a cataclysm that reverberated around the globe, with no warning, no foreboding, no lingering, they vanished.”
― Edward Dolnick, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

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