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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers, #1)

by Karina Yan Glaser (Goodreads Author)

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Celeste’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn

A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn by Clara Parkes

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Does it live inside a Liberty of London bag? Keep. It means you got to London. Wallow in that forever.

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

by Séamas O'Reilly

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Celeste’s Quotes

“We have a right to our imagined traditions, to our imagined places, and those traditions and places are most powerful when we confess that they are imagined.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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“Elmo showed my father’s softer side, since there’s no greater love than that between a taciturn rural Irishman and the dog he shouts at all day.”
― Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

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“Living under a cloud of bomb threats and extrajudicial murder doesn’t necessarily leave you in a state of constant fear. What can break your spirit is the deadening trudge of small humiliations and the steady expectation of petty inconvenience. It’s life being interrupted by a hundred things outside your control.”
― Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

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