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3.5. Not as good as the first one, but he's a good storyteller, if not a great writer. I listened to the audio during workouts, which was like listening to one of the crossover episodes of Homicide and Law & Order. Very satisfying.
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“In crisis, I circled my wagons, more afraid of being disappointed by someone than going it alone.”
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
― Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“The particular human chain we're part of is central to our individual identity. Even if we loathe our families, in order to know ourselves, we seem to need to know about them, just as prologue. Not to know is to live with some of the disorientation and anxiety of the amnesiac.”
― Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
― Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us
“Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.”
― Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
― Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
“Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.”
― Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
― Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
“Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.”
― My Life in Middlemarch
― My Life in Middlemarch
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