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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 23, 2025 07:46AM

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Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1)

by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 20, 2025 03:00AM

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Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #2)

by A.J. Pearce (Goodreads Author)

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Laura’s Notes & Highlights

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

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I come from unanalyzed, incurious people, and that sort of thing wasn’t part of the family culture growing up.

Life, and Death, and Giants

by Ron Rindo

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Silas Marner

by George Eliot

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“We’d try to define these terms like honor, integrity, etc. It really forced me to find some kind of substance to these terms that shape our lives. I was forced to look into a mirror, basically, at myself, to give these things real meaning. That changed the way I felt about everything, about others, about myself. I was literally digging into the very root of myself while digging into Shakespeare’s characters.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

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“In the ideal, our writing would be a feast, welcoming and enlivening to our readers. Yet we must recognize that a reader is also a kind of host. Readers receive our writing, bringing it into their homes, giving it their time and attention. The challenge of charitable writing, then, isn't simply to be a good host. It is, at the same time, to be a good guest. Our aspiration must not be simply to love others through our writing, as if we are all-sufficient. With all humility, we may earnestly hope that our writing will be an occasion to be loved.”
― Richard Hughes Gibson, Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words

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“to try to define these terms because these things drive our lives and we don’t even know what they are. I think it’s critical to get these people to start addressing these questions.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

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“I sometimes think ‘just this once’ is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

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“Viewing writing as exploration means that you don't have to have it all worked out before you begin. We find just such a sentiment modeled by Augustine. Responding to a criticism of his book on free will, he wrote, 'I endeavor to be one of those who write because they have made some progress, and who, by means of writing, make further progress.' Similarly, the twentieth-century Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor admitted, 'I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.' Simply stated: we may write to learn what we think.”
― Richard Hughes Gibson, Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words

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