Teri L.

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Teri L.

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Teri’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

1491 by Charles C. Mann

A Start in Life by Anita Brookner

Serve It Forth by M.F.K. Fisher

Eating In America by Waverley Root

The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill

When French Women Cook by Madeleine Kamman

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Teri’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (294)
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food-nutrition‎ (168)
france‎ (143)
environment‎ (94)

midwest-chicago-ohio‎ (62)
women-rights-history‎ (46)
women-bio-auto-mem‎ (45)
economics-finance‎ (34)

us-presidents-history‎ (26)

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Teri is Currently Reading

Paris in Ruins: L...

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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

by Sebastian Smee

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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

by Francesca Wade

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The Book of Tofu

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The Book of Tofu

by William Shurtleff

bookshelves: currently-reading, food-nutrition

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Jan 23, 2024 03:08PM

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Teri’s Quotes

Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.”
― Abraham Heschel

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2026 Reading Challenge

Teri L. has read 16 of 50 books.

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Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Travel, and food-history

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