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Krista is Currently Reading

Krista is currently reading

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

by Jenny Lawson (Goodreads Author)

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Reading for the 4th time

read in March 2021

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Krista said: " 2021: I think this was my 3rd time reading this book? Maybe 4th? I've gone back to it from time to time when my anxiety gets bad and I need to laugh and hear someone say better days are coming. ...more "

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(90%)
— Mar 20, 2021 07:33AM

Mar 21, 2021 08:27PM · see review

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Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind, #3)

by Terry Pratchett

bookshelves: fantasy, humor, witches-and-wizards, sir-terry, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

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Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)

by Colin Meloy

bookshelves: 2015-reading-challenge, children-s-books, children-s-fiction, fantasy, currently-reading

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read in December 2015

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— Nov 30, 2015 08:16PM

Dec 01, 2015 09:03PM

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Krista’s Quotes

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

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“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: writing, writing-process

340 likes

“Normal is boring. Weird is better. Goats are awesome, but only in small quantities.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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“Depression is like … when you don’t want cheese anymore. Even though it’s cheese.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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“There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

tags: change, past, present

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