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Jk is Currently Reading

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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read in November 2015

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The Island King (Strange Eden, #2)

by Gina Giordano (Goodreads Author)

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Jk’s Notes & Highlights

Takers by Jake Troxell

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He watched the bonfire’s smoke rise into the sky and wondering if his dad was being cremated as he sat there.

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“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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“Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
― Jim Thompson

tags: noir

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“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: truth

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