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

“Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems

tags: evil, familiarity

334 likes

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

3229 likes

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: fantasy, humor, scifi

23481 likes

“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: education, history, past

275 likes

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: ambition

1075 likes

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