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Karen is Currently Reading

Karen is currently reading

Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

by Alexandra Zapruder

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You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection, #4) by Amor Towles

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there was no better predictor of an earnings disappointment than a brand-new corporate headquarters.

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“For it is better -- is it not? -- to attempt to change things slowly than not to strive for progress at all.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“We performed in front of the camera with unabashed joy, as if we lived only for that moment. And in fact we had, for our work did not stand the test of time. Our images -- quite literally -- crumbled.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“But it had been a long day, they had heard one another's stories and that made it harder to dislike one another, so Julia said something incredibly generous instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“There is something to be said for experiencing great art, or nature, by oneself; the absence of other people makes the enjoyment more pure, and one's perceptions grow acute and discerning.”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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“It is popular now to say that Hollywood is a state of mind more than an actual place, since the Boulevard itself has become as tasteless and as subject to bad elements as that other den of American excess, Times Square”
― Nina Revoyr, The Age of Dreaming

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