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Marta is Currently Reading

Marta is currently reading

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

by Julian Rubinstein (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audio, aty-2024, nonfiction, region-central-europe, library, immigrant

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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley

by Alison Weir

bookshelves: to-read-owned, own-print, currently-reading

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Marta’s Notes & Highlights

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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

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We like anybody as long as they have money and buy scones.

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Marta’s Quotes

“His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“They do it because they can.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

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“He is not my father.”
“So said every unhappy daughter.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Volume 4: The Chosen

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“Just because the relationship ended doesn't mean it wasn't true or good or worth having. Everything expires eventually. Enjoy the good for what it was, not what it always has to be.”
― Iris Goodreads

tags: hea, love, philosophy-of-life, relationships

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“We’re stretched thin, all of us; we vibrate; we quiver, we’re always on the alert. Reign of terror, they used to say, but terror does not exactly reign. Instead it paralyzes. Hence the unnatural quiet.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

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