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Jim is Currently Reading

Jim B is currently reading

Simple Habits for Marital Happiness

by Randall Schroeder

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Sounding the Seasons enlarged edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for Christian Year

by Malcolm Guite (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files #1)

The Pawn (The Patrick Bowers Files #1) by Steven James

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“You’re right, chaos is evidence of human beings,” Pastor Richman whispered to me after his prayer was over. “But hope is evidence of God.

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“The person we fall in love with, we hardly ever call by their name. Because it’s somehow just so obvious that it’s you I’m talking to, that it’s you I’m always thinking of. Who else?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“What I hate most isn’t that people die. What I hate most is that they’re dead. That I’m alive, without them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“It might sound like an unhappy ending, but only if you forget how many times during this story we've told you that someone laughed. How many really good now's is that?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

tags: laughter, the-present-moment

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“You can’t love someone out of addiction. All the oceans are the tears of those who have tried”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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“People say that anxiety is fear for no reason, but Ted’s brain is very helpful when it comes to providing suggestions. Once he read a book that said that people with neuropsychiatric disorders need to “make friends with their brain,” but Ted and Ted’s brain are not friends, they’re classmates, forced to do a group assignment called “life” together. And it’s not going great.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

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