Christine Kallner

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Christine is Currently Reading

Christine Kallner is currently reading

The Green Ember

by S.D. Smith (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 28, 2026 05:02PM

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Reading God's Word 2026: Daily and Sunday Mass Readings Church Year A

by Confraternity Christian Doc

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Feb 21, 2026 04:26AM

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The Complete Fairy Tales (Vintage Classics)

by Jacob Grimm

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Christine’s Notes & Highlights

The Darkling Bride by Laura Andersen

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she had deliberately ignored a simple truth: tragedy casts a long shadow.

The Ark Plan (Edge of Extinction, #1)

by Laura Martin

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“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a book that will deeply affect someone.”
― Katherine Paterson, Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

tags: censorship

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“That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.”
― Norma Fox Mazer, Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

tags: censorship

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“Some of the choices teenagers make are morally and practically wrong. Some of my characters do things I hope my child won't. There are occasionally words my characters choose that I wouldn't utter in my mother's presence. But when I was sixteen, or twelve, hanging out with my friends? That was different. For a story to feel real, I have to respect what a character would really do or say.”
― Rachel Vail, Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

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“Perhaps nothing is so wounding to a writer than being accused of having written something that hurts a child. Censorship is an attitude of mistrust and suspicion that seeks to deprive the human experience of mystery and complexity. But without mystery and complexity there is no wonder; there is no awe; there is no laughter.”
― Julius Lester, Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

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“In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced--writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices--all because of fear. How many have resorted to self-censorship? How many are saying to themselves, "Nope ... can't write about that. Can't teach that book. Can't have that book in our collection. Can't let my student write that editorial in the school paper.”
― Judy Blume, Places I Never Meant to Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

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