Mandy Phillips

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Mandy’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English by Roy Peter Clark

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Living inside the language requires a love of words: the sound of words in the air, the sight of words on the page or screen, the feelings and images created by words in our hearts and heads. Words can even stimulate our senses; I can ...more

Mandy’s Quotes

“That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

tags: acceptance, friendship

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“in, taking a table by the window. Glancing around,”
― Anonymous

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“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper

tags: happiness, risk

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“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

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“Joy is the best makeup.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

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Mandy’s Groups

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26941 members — last activity 18 minutes ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

The Next Best Book Club — 26173 members — last activity 12 hours, 52 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more

The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge — 27717 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
This group is for those participating in The 52 Book Club's annual challenges! With 52 unique prompts released each year, the goal is to diversify our ...more

Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge — 1546 members — last activity Jan 12, 2024 09:07AM
Welcome to an incredibly chill reading challenge group. Together we aim to tackle the annual Pop Sugar reading challenge each year but this group is m ...more

PopSugar Reading Challenge 2021 — 743 members — last activity Mar 06, 2025 07:06AM
This group has been made to discuss books we've found or read for the different categories for the Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021! Challenge starts J ...more

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