Lindsay Rettler

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Lindsay is Currently Reading

Lindsay Rettler is currently reading

Mere Christianity

by C.S. Lewis

bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction

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Apr 23, 2026 08:09AM

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

bookshelves: currently-reading, audio, book-club, dystopian, fiction

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Apr 18, 2026 02:12PM

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A True Home (Heartwood Hotel, #1)

by Kallie George

bookshelves: currently-reading, read-aloud-to-kiddos

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Apr 12, 2026 08:40AM

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Lindsay’s Notes & Highlights

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

1 highlight

Ms. Annie said all God’s children have to take a shit, but you’d never know it from the way they treat the ones that clean it up.

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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, light

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“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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“What kept Minli from becoming dull and brown like the rest of the village were the stories her father told her every night at dinner. She glowed with such wonder and excitement”
― Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

4 likes

“Stories are not a waste of time”
― Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

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“Fortune was not a house full of gold and jade, but something much more.”
― Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

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