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The Elements (The Elements, #1-4)

by John Boyne (Goodreads Author)

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The Mad Wife

by Meagan Church (Goodreads Author)

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Big Chief

by Jon Hickey (Goodreads Author)

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Colin Jack’s Notes & Highlights

Satantango by László Krasznahorkai

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His imagination was bewitched almost to the point of paralysis by the notion that this estate with its rich, generous soil was, only a few million years ago, covered by the sea . . . that it had alternated between sea and dry land, and ...more

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In Memoriam

by Alice Winn

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Things in Nature Merely Grow

by Yiyun Li

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Colin Jack’s Quotes

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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