Laura
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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert On Writing by Stephen King The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Othello by William Shakespeare Sophie’s Choice by William Styron Life of Pi by Yann Martel A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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Laura’s Quotes

Jane Austen
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
tags: humor, love, romantic, women
18043 likes

Benjamin Franklin Wade
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade
tags: humor, misattributed-mark-twain, philosophy, theology
19847 likes

Charles J. Sykes
“Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
― Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add
tags: humor, misattributed-to-bill-gates, nerd, nerds, work
15553 likes

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
18020 likes

Jane Austen
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
51610 likes

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Laura’s Groups

408 Cincinnati Book Lovers — 183 members — last activity Aug 11, 2021 05:41AM
For book lovers in the Greater Cincinnati area!
758 The Rory Gilmore Book Club — 23413 members — last activity Jan 17, 2026 04:46PM
Reading is sexy! This group is for fans of literature and the Gilmore Girls. Join us for some witty banter, numerous pop culture references, and enlig ...more

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Life of Pi by Yann MartelMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Favorite Genres

Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, and Romance


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