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Many people who are familiar with coast redwoods have seen them in the Muir Woods National Monument, in Marin County, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Muir Woods, which is visited by nearly a million people every year, is a tiny patch
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“I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer”
― She’s Come Undone
― She’s Come Undone
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
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“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.”
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“High School is like a sickness, but trust me, soon the fever breaks and you get over it." ~She's Come Undone”
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“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”
― The Thirteenth Tale
― The Thirteenth Tale
Time Travel
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This is a group for people who enjoy books that transport them to a different time and place through time travel. We have a monthly book club, offer m ...more
Readers United - Read on!
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We are a united federation of readers that embark on the journey to bury our souls into books.
Karin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Karin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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