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Leigh is Currently Reading

Leigh is currently reading

Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence About (Almost) Every Imaginable Subject of Daily Life

by Rachel Syme

bookshelves: currently-reading, hardcover

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Jan 15, 2026 07:14AM

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Hammajang Luck

by Makana Yamamoto (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 14, 2026 06:27AM

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The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

by Meg Lowman

bookshelves: skimmed, currently-reading, ebook

Reading for the 2nd time

read in July 2022

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Jan 10, 2026 09:12AM

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Leigh’s Quotes

“Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.”
― Ann Druyan

tags: agnosticism, astronomy, atheism, belief, carl-sagan, knowledge, sagan, science, truth

136 likes

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

1430 likes

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars

3244 likes

“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
― Shaun Tan

115 likes

“Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.”
― Ann Druyan

tags: ann-druyan, appreciation, carl-sagan, life, loss, love, memory, nostalgia, remember

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