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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman

by Deesha Philyaw (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: own-as-ebook, netgalley, attn, currently-reading

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"It’s so nice to read a protagonist EXACTLY my age so I get all the references" — Sep 22, 2026 10:08PM

Sep 22, 2026 06:55PM

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I'm a Lot: Surviving Myself and All the People I've Been

by Alison Leiby

bookshelves: biography-auto-memoir, nonfic, currently-reading, via-audio

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Aug 10, 2026 11:56AM

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How To Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

by Ruth Goodman

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Aug 23, 2025 06:34PM

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Laura’s Quotes

“I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: book

42 likes

“Teen books are like adult books, without all the bullshit.”
― Jack Martin

4 likes

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, moon, stars, sun

2415 likes

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
― Elizabeth Zimmerman

tags: humor, knitting, life

152 likes

“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

tags: family

79 likes

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