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Kourtney
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How do we move toward wholeness? How do we do right by the wronged people of the past without physical evidence of their suffering? How do we direct our record keeping toward justice?
“...I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“... and all the hurts and scars / Of everyday were healed, and I would sleep / Safe with the good-night memory of stars.”
― Halfway Up the Sky: Poems
― Halfway Up the Sky: Poems
“...it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”
― A Separate Peace
― A Separate Peace
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Read by Theme
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Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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Our Shared Shelf
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Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club
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2018 Reading Challenge!
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Here is a list of 50 challenges to read from. You may read more or less, and the challenges do not have to be read in order. Come read along! Here ar ...more
Kourtney’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kourtney’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, and Young-adult
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