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“Despite his limited experience of them, women, he believed, were in general more alert than men, more keenly receptive of the tiny signals the world sends streaming out endlessly. It made sense, since they were more vulnerable and therefore had to be always on their guard. The same as children, only children were more trusting.”
― The Drowned
― The Drowned
“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.”
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“Despair is something horribly simple.”
― Down There on a Visit
― Down There on a Visit
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”
― Lies and Weddings
― Lies and Weddings
“Eve wondered what mental illness tasted like to a serpent. Probably depended on the illness, she rationalized. Deep trauma would naturally be raw, pus, and ooze. Something like schizophrenia would be rancid on the outside, frozen and cold at its core. But Eve's mania, her continued depression, her anxiety, she felt would be dry and burnt, as if stuck in a deep freeze too long. Frosty and unsatisfying to the animal devouring it.”
― Hello, Old Friend
― Hello, Old Friend
The Brown County Reading Society
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The Da Vinci Code Readalong #DaVinciCodeReadalong
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This March, I will be hosting a readalong of Dan Brown's classic The Da Vinci Code. Please do join in if you would like to read this book or learn a b ...more
Marx's Capital Volumes I, II, III (Study Group - 2020 and beyond)
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We see symptoms of crises all around us, from the immediate "public health" pandemic of COVID19 to repeated "financial" crises to escalating "environm ...more
What next, now notifications are reduced, DMs abolished, so GR is dying?
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On 20 Sept 2024, GR removed the option for email notifications, without telling users (unless they looked at the "help" page). In-app/web notification ...more
Kindle Book Club Forum
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