DeAnn

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DeAnn is Currently Reading

DeAnn is currently reading

Good Dirt

by Charmaine Wilkerson

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Feb 06, 2026 04:12AM

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Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power

by Brooke Baldwin (Goodreads Author)

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in October 2022

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DeAnn said: " I got the chance to see Brooke Baldwin speak in October at a conference I attended and had to read her book. I loved the stories that showed the power of women working together. In the book, Baldwin shows that women have been harnessing this power th ...more "

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The Lost (The Lost, #1)

by Sarah Beth Durst (Goodreads Author)

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DeAnn’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

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Life will throw you major curveballs, but it’s rare you can do much more than duck.

DeAnn’s Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: adventure

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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

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