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Jess is Currently Reading

Jess is currently reading

Whistler

by Ann Patchett

bookshelves: currently-reading, adult, fiction

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Oct 04, 2026 02:52PM

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Becoming

by Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026-challenges, adult, biography, memoir, non-fiction

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Sep 25, 2026 04:20PM

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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: adult, non-fiction, own, philosophy, personal-development, self-help, spirituality, currently-reading

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read in December 2025

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“We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.”
― Robert Falcon Scott

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“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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“Those were the endings I found solace in. The ones that said, Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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“Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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