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Chris is Currently Reading

Chris Stanley is currently reading

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

by Richard Holmes

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Sep 07, 2026 03:27AM

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

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