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“A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
“Causation extraction makes Jack a dull reader.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
― An Unnecessary Woman
“There's so much beauty in this world that it's hard to begin. There are no words with which to express my gratitude at having been given this one chance to live - if not Live. Let other people frequent the nightclubs in their tight-ass skirts and Live. I'm just sitting here, vibrating in my apartment, at having been given this one chance to live.”
― How Should a Person Be?
― How Should a Person Be?
“The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.”
― The Flamethrowers
― The Flamethrowers
“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade that separates me from the book. I try to be involved.
I am Raskalnikov. I am K. I am Humbert and Lolita.
I am you.
If you read these pages and think I'm the way I am because I lived through a civil war, you can't feel my pain. If you believe you're not like me because one woman, and only one, Hannah, chose to be my friend, then you're unable to empathize.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
I am Raskalnikov. I am K. I am Humbert and Lolita.
I am you.
If you read these pages and think I'm the way I am because I lived through a civil war, you can't feel my pain. If you believe you're not like me because one woman, and only one, Hannah, chose to be my friend, then you're unable to empathize.”
― An Unnecessary Woman
DFW - The Broom of the System (group read)
— 22 members
— last activity Dec 26, 2011 03:08PM
We will be reading David Foster Wallace's "The Broom of the System," starting October 1, 2011. Here's the reading schedule: https://docs.google.com/sp ...more
Simmons GSLIS Book Group
— 37 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2013 06:39AM
Professor Mary Wilkins Jordan founded the GSLIS Book Group in February 2011. Its purpose is to bring GSLIS students together once a month for somethin ...more
CPL Noir Book Club
— 3 members
— last activity Nov 20, 2012 08:52AM
This the official Unofficial Noir Book Club of the CPL. Once a month, we'll get together to have a snack and discuss a book. Unofficially, of course. ...more
Salt Lake City Public Library
— 346 members
— last activity Dec 02, 2016 08:20AM
The City Library's Goodreads Group is intended as a persistent online presence for Book Club discussions, as well as to facilitate the creation and ma ...more
SLC Book Swap
— 10 members
— last activity Dec 29, 2015 02:26PM
This is a group for people in the SLC area to borrow books from other bookworms, as well as give recommendations and nerd out about "tropes" and "moti ...more
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