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Real Ones

by Katherena Vermette (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, listened-to-on-audio, native-american, currently-reading

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A Slowly Dying Cause (Inspector Lynley, #22)

by Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)

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Worn: A People's History of Clothing

by Sofi Thanhauser

bookshelves: 2025, ebook, history, currently-reading

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“History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.”
― Mal Peet, Life: An Exploded Diagram

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“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: inside, looks, people, true-nature

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“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry

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Palatine Library District — 11 members — last activity Apr 17, 2020 05:08PM
This is the online book club for Palatine Library! All are welcome to participate. Our current Virtual Big Read is about Hedy Lamar The Only Woman ...more

Forever Young Adult BookClub Chicago! — 86 members — last activity Oct 07, 2021 06:13AM
A Forever Young Adult (FYA) chapter book club located in Chicago. We meet once a month to discuss the book of the month as well as other YA/books we a ...more

Chicago Hairpin Book Club — 6 members — last activity Jan 24, 2013 09:05AM
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The Rooster! — 308 members — last activity Feb 26, 2019 11:53PM
Tournament of books commentariat, all year long!

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26773 members — last activity Nov 24, 2025 08:49PM
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

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