Erin

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Erin is Currently Reading

Erin is currently reading

The Federalist Papers

by Alexander Hamilton

bookshelves: obama-reading-challenge, government-or-politics, currently-reading

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— May 07, 2025 09:49AM

Jul 02, 2024 08:09PM

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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

by L.M. Montgomery

bookshelves: classic, friendship, series, girl-main-character, books-to-movies, tween, re-readable, teen, rory-gilmore-reading-challenge, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in May 2017

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Erin said: " This little girl is my hero of heroines, and I've re-read the series more times than I can count. Because the series follows Anne through her adult life, each time I read these books, I do so with a slightly different frame of reference, which keeps ...more "

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— Nov 13, 2024 03:35AM

Sep 23, 2024 10:08AM · see review

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Essays of E. B. White

by E.B. White

bookshelves: short-stories, currently-reading

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(page 29 of 368)
"Essay 4: Death of a Pig.
“But even so, there was a directness and dispatch about animal burial, I thought, that made it a more decent affair than human burial...”" — Sep 09, 2018 07:26PM

Feb 17, 2017 04:38PM

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Erin’s Quotes

“We need to get away from the binary nature of sex assignment,’ Crews ventured. ‘There’s a continuum, with males at one end and females at the other, and variability is continuous between those two types.”
― Lucy Cooke, Bitch: On the Female of the Species

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“Man mistakes his own experiences as the canvas on which all truths are drawn.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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“It's wild, isn't it," Rummy said, "how there are all these stories that played out before we even existed. And their residue is all around us, all the time, but we don't even know it. Sometimes I wonder how much of me is my own, you know?”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

tags: history, stories

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“Stories are the opposite of walls; they demand release, retelling, showing, connecting, each image chipping away at boundaries.”
― Charles D. Thompson Jr., Border Odyssey: Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide

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“They had grown to loathe the man in his short time in their community but they pitied him in death. No one would ever know what had driven him or what had brought him to their town. Now they felt only relief that he would be gone...”
― Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow

tags: empathy, grief, mixed-emotions

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