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Jennifer

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Jennifer is Currently Reading

Jennifer is currently reading

The Woman in the Library

by Sulari Gentill (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobooks-tbr, mysteries-tbr

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The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

by Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)

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Horse

by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)

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Jennifer’s Notes & Highlights

Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette

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It’s truer to say that we—or, I, at least—had come because we’d been told it was God’s plan, which a lot of the time has nothing to do with what you had in mind for yourself.

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

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“Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.”
― Paul Éluard, Selected Poems (A Calderbook, Cb435)

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“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books, love, reading

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“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.”
― Sarah Breathnach

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“Golden daffodils dance in the gentle breeze, birds twitter a happy song and sunshine caresses my face as I taste the delicious sweetness of springtime again.”
― Peggy Toney Horton

tags: birds-twitter, daffodils, spring, springtime

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