Mitch

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Mitch is Currently Reading

Mitch is currently reading

Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)

by Patrick O'Brian

bookshelves: boat, fiction, historical-fiction, physical, currently-reading

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— Jul 07, 2026 07:23PM

Jun 30, 2026 02:59PM

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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)

by Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, book-club, fiction, romantasy, e-books

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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

by Theodor W. Adorno

bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction, physical, theory

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Mitch’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World (Contemporary Asia in the World)

The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World (Contemporary Asia in the World) by Ho-fung Hung

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The underlying principle and basic dynamics of capitalism as an economic system are universal, though capitalism is always enmeshed in historically and nationally specific sociopolitical structures that enable the release of its productive ...more

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

by Peter Watts

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Mitch’s Quotes

“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: ads, advertising, anxiety

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“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: identity

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