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Reading for the 2nd time
read in October 2022
Abbey said:
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POPSUGAR 2022: A book featuring a man-made disasterI don't recall this book's release, which is curious, considering that New Orleans has become ingrained in my DNA. Maybe I didn't want to know about the actual horrors that my heart knew occurred in ...more "
she is legally white because the Supreme Court says that people from Syria/Lebanon are racially white. Which proves yet again that race is a social construct without biological meaning.
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”
― M Train: A Memoir
― M Train: A Memoir
“Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”
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“Replace ropes with bullets. Hound dogs with German shepherds. A gray uniform with a bulletproof vest. Nothing is new.”
― The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
― The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
“Rome was built on the blood of Remus; the Republic was born from the death of Lucretia; the Empire grew from the assassination of Caesar.”
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
“As had happened with Julius Caesar, it turned out that the people of Rome were actually quite keen on Gaius and were not fans of presumptuous senators and magistrates making unilateral decisions about the nature of Roman government with swords. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, they believed, not from some farcical bloody murder. Strange men in corridors distributing stab wounds was no basis for a system of government.”
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
― A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
2026 Read Harder Challenge
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Here we go again! For anyone interested in reading along :)
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