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I thought I could choose a destiny. I wanted Jane Smiley’s editor to tell me, Go be a visual artist and forget about this writing thing, kid. I was someone who didn’t know how to find the path he was on, the one under his feet. This, it
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“Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?”
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”
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“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
and changing leaves.”
― To the Lighthouse
“I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy. ~Hamlin Garland, McClure's, February 1899”
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Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Angela’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
660 books
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38 friends
302 books
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36 friends
844 books
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41 friends
2,043 books
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126 friends
609 books
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109 friends
1,240 books
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136 friends
2,061 books
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4,969 friends
801 books
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115 friends
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Literary Fiction, Manga, Music, Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Sports, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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