Tim Martin

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Tim is Currently Reading

Tim Martin is currently reading

The Graveyard Apartment

by Mariko Koike

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Dec 10, 2025 12:21PM

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Curfew

by Phil Rickman

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Nov 25, 2025 01:43PM

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Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe

by Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)

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Tim’s Quotes

“But you know better than I, Prince, that even fixed stars are so only in appearance.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

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“I have sometimes reflected that the last part of that comment—“The real truth will remain unresolved, and may even be different”—deserves to be carved in marble on a suitable monument that could then be erected in the center of Rome.”
― John Hooper, The Italians

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“Remember the fairy tales, all the witches and wizards with their houses in the woods. Maybe they want privacy for their work. Maybe there is something about the places they choose to live. Maybe the world is thinner there. Maybe they can hear the sounds they are listening for more clearly.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

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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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“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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