Katie Pagan

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biography‎ (501)
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Katie is Currently Reading

Katie Pagan is currently reading

The Only One Left

by Riley Sager (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: goodreads-wins, a-novel, thriller, horror, gothic, unfinished, 2025-tbr, listened-to, currently-reading

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(page 37 of 383)
— Dec 06, 2025 11:07AM

Dec 06, 2025 11:06AM

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The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

bookshelves: of-notable-length, horror, haunted-houses, 2025-tbr, currently-reading, listened-to

Reading for the 2nd time

read in June 2015

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— Jul 10, 2025 08:54AM

Jul 10, 2025 08:54AM

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

bookshelves: literary-classics, favourite-books, of-notable-length, crash-course-lit, currently-reading, 2025-tbr

Reading for the 6th time

read in March 2011

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Katie Pagan said: " Why haven't I reviewed this book until now? Possibly because there is no way I could ever adequately express how much this book means to me. It is my favorite book of all time---the book I would bring to a desert island if forced to choose. It's ...more "

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(page 70 of 578)
— Dec 02, 2024 09:17PM

Dec 02, 2024 09:17PM · see review

Katie’s Quotes

“Trevor voiced a literal willingness to die for his place in this hierarchy, rather than participate in a system that might put him on the same plane as immigrants or racial minorities. 4”
― Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

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“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

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“Our former selves are never dead. We speak to them, arguing against decisions we know will bring only unhappiness, offering consolation and hope, even though they cannot hear.”
― William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land

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“If Trump said it was a joke, reporters reported that claim. They wanted to believe that some norms still held. Some feared that if they acknowledged just how far beyond norms he’d gone, they’d be normalizing the new American spectrum, one in which dictatorship had become not just a hyperbolic charge thrown around by each party’s most heated partisans but an actual idea.”
― Jeff Sharlet, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

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“Minorities or women have never held a majority in either chamber of Congress, or on the Supreme Court, and there has been only one nonwhite president of the United States in American history. White people got so pissed off at that they replaced Barack Obama with a bigoted con man who questioned whether the Black president was even born in this country, and when their guy lost the next election, his people tried to start a coup.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

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