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I've added this to my currently reading books, but I don't actually think I'll finish it. I got half way in and it's due to be returned to the library. I am not sufficiently motivated to renew it. That said, my son read all three books and liked them
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“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“It is one thing to overthrow a dictator or to repel and invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and internationally, for millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“How easy it is, to waste a life.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
Jacqueline’s 2025 Year in Books
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