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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

Very Nice Funerals (Rocky Start #2)

by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)

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Laura’s Quotes

“Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.”
― John Scalzi, Fuzzy Nation

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“Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.”
― Joe Queenan

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“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: answers, correct, google, internet, libarary, librarian, librarians, right, search

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“When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

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“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”
― John Scalzi

tags: characters, gay, glbt, literature, raising-kids, writing, ya

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