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Wander Woman: How to Reclaim Your Space, Find Your Voice, and Travel the World, Solo

by Beth Santos (Goodreads Author)

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In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work

by Kyla Scanlon

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Kristin’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)

Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1) by Martha Hall Kelly

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Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn’t Lord Byron himself said, “The busy have no time for tears”?

I guess it's essentially avoidance, but this may help some people now in coping with the Coronavirus ordeal...

The Last Days of Night

by Graham Moore

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Kristin’s Quotes

“There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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