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April is Currently Reading

April is currently reading

Imaginary Strangers (Dangerous Strangers, #1)

by Minka Kent (Goodreads Author)

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While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

by J. Reuben Appelman (Goodreads Author)

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"Today is the 3 year anniversary of this horrific crime and I am still heartbroken about it. Those innocent college students murdered so horrifically by a low life loser 😪" — Nov 13, 2025 07:39PM

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)

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April’s Notes & Highlights

The Answer Is No by Fredrik Backman

2 highlights

the most horrible thing on earth: making decisions.

The Mad Wife

by Meagan Church

5 highlights
The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans

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April’s Quotes

“How do you tell someone that an animal is more important to you than the people in your neighborhood”
― Chris Dietzel, The Last Astronaut

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“Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!”
― Jessica Simpson

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“Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

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“There are so many firsts to raising kids, and parents are told to catch them all. But they don’t warn you about the lasts. The last baby onesie. The last time you tie their shoes. The last time they think you have every answer in the world.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

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“When you endure horror day after day, month after month, it becomes normalized. I built high stone walls around my heart—walls that no one could break through or climb over for more than twenty years. My MO was to not think about it, not talk about it. Don’t feed the beast. Don’t give it any oxygen. It’ll go away. For a long time, I made that work, but every now and then, some random thing would trigger a flood of memory and anxiety and crush my soul all over again.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

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