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Frances is currently reading

Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

by Dorothy L. Sayers

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Reading for the 4th time

read in August 2014

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"His long amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola." — Aug 21, 2014 03:31PM

Aug 23, 2014 04:47PM

Frances’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis

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What appeared to be economic growth was activity fueled by people borrowing money they probably couldn’t afford to repay: by their rough count, worldwide debts, public and private, had more than doubled since 2002, from $84 trillion to $195 ...more

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“The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“You do it because the doing of it is the thing. The doing is the thing. The talking and worrying and thinking is not the thing.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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“Chuck functions here as a kind of authenticity fetish, allowing Hans (and the reader) the nostalgic pleasure of returning to a narrative time when symbols and mottoes were full of meaning and novels weren’t neurotic, but could aim themselves simply and purely at transcendent feeling.”
― Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

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“But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerned, quantum physics could have been written by a hack.”
― John Scalzi, Redshirts

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