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Jon is Currently Reading

Jon Nguyen is currently reading

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

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Jul 26, 2025 08:07AM

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Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

by Steve Magness (Goodreads Author)

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Hypermedia Systems

by Carson Gross

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Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels by Katherine Anne Porter

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Quite often they wondered why every older person who looked at the picture said, “How lovely”; and why everyone who had known her thought her so beautiful and charming.

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“No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.”
― Katherine Anne Porter, Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Three Short Novels

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“Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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“There was nothing even faintly exciting about this work; it was pure tedium, and pure boredom. And yet every step involved contact with something that could kill, and every step involved passion.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

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“Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still better.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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“What matters is that the unconscious brain knows when the body is capable of achieving the goals of the conscious mind and communicates this knowledge to consciousness in the form of the feeling of confidence. Therefore, the primary objective of training for every competitive runner should be to develop confidence in her ability to achieve her race goals.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel

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