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Elaine’s favorite books

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume She Comes First by Ian Kerner The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez Ubik by Philip K. Dick Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Milan Kundera
“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
tags: happiness, life, man, plight, time
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Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel


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