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George is Currently Reading

George Dean is currently reading

Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? (All the Wrong Questions, #4)

by Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: mystery, young-adult, postmodern, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in September 2015

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(page 194 of 291)
— Sep 29, 2015 12:15PM

Sep 29, 2015 02:39PM

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Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners, #3)

by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: historical-fiction, young-adult, supernatural, fantasy, horror, lgbtqa, romance, science-fiction, best-of-2018, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in January 2018

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George Dean said: " I’m not even half way through January and I feel like this could be the best book I’ll read this year. Much darker than previous books, but an awful lot of that stems from where Bray parallels the social issues regarding inequality and toxic national ...more "

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(page 408 of 552)
— Jan 12, 2018 06:00PM

Jan 13, 2018 02:04PM · see review

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Tom's Crossing

by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

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— Jan 19, 2026 03:09PM

Nov 05, 2025 01:01PM

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George’s Quotes

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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“After all, I was only eighteen then. I’m almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I’m doing.”
― Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight

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“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Daniel Handler

tags: humor, ignorance, lemony-snicket, library

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“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

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“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: holden-caulfield, laughter

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