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Susan Baranoff

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Susan is Currently Reading

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The Second Chance Book Club

by Stephanie Butland (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 52-books-in-2026, adult-fiction-and-literature, audio-version, currently-reading

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Apr 28, 2026 01:17AM

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Palm Beach Babylon: The Sinful History of America's Super-Rich Paradise

by Murray Weiss

bookshelves: 52-books-in-2026, adult-biographies-and-autobiographi, adult-non-fiction, adult-social-issues, currently-reading

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Jan 26, 2026 12:23PM

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

by Arthur Herman

bookshelves: adult-history, currently-reading, adult-philosophy-and-thought

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Susan’s Notes & Highlights

Oh. What. Fun. by Chandler Baker

1 highlight

You guys always say: ‘Don’t stress! It’ll all get done! It always gets done!’ You make me crazy with that. It gets done because I do it.

The Astral Library

by Kate Quinn

6 highlights
Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

6 highlights

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Susan’s Quotes

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: road

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“A criticism is just a really bad way of making a request...so just make the request.”
― Diane Sawyer

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“[W]hen questioned by an anthropologist on what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, “Ours.” —Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”
― Angeline Boulley, Warrior Girl Unearthed

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“Throughout history, great philosophical minds have grappled with the nature of identity. What makes a person a person? What combination of memory, history, imagination, experience, subjectivity, genetic substance, and that ineffable thing called the soul makes us who we are? Is who we are the same as who we believe ourselves to be?”
― Dani Shapiro, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

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