Anne Bennett

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Anne is Currently Reading

Anne Bennett is currently reading

Angel Down

by Daniel Kraus (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audiobook, pulitzer-prize, with-don

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Why Read Moby-Dick?

by Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author)

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

by Muriel Spark

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Anne’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) (Penguin Poets)

Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) (Penguin Poets) by Terrance Hayes

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Maybe Art’s only purpose is to preserve the Self.

This is why I read poetry.

Anne’s Quotes

“Sooner or later, she must sit down to the meal of consequences”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

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“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

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“There are four good things worth practicing. Being kind toward everything alive. Staying level and steady. Feeling happy for any creature anywhere that is happy. And remembering that any suffering is also yours.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

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“I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. “Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids’ heads.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

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“But there was never going to be a version of the story in which it wasn't my missing jewelry and my dead friend. You can ignore grief. You push it around your plate. But you can't give it away.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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