Sharon

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Sharon is Currently Reading

Sharon is currently reading

Alone in Berlin

by Hans Fallada

bookshelves: tbr-project, currently-reading, contemporary-literary-fiction, history, historical-fiction

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Oct 23, 2025 03:30AM

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The Light Eaters

by Zoë Schlanger

bookshelves: currently-reading, botany, environment, gaia, nature, natural-history, non-fiction

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Oct 10, 2025 05:42PM

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Nature Tales for Winter Nights

by Nancy Campbell (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, gaia, nature

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Jan 18, 2025 03:42AM

Sharon ’s Quotes

“That's one of the things stories and books can do, they can make more than one time possible at once.”
― Ali Smith, Winter

tags: books, stories, time

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“And after all there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky. And that's about it.”
― Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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“There is a world of good you can do without even realizing it, if you decide that today, just today, you're going to be decent to the people you meet.”
― Jack Tyler

tags: inspirational

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“Are we at mercy of technology or is technology at mercy of us?”
― Ali Smith, Winter

tags: technology

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“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

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Sharon ’s Groups

The Post Card Exchange — 1790 members — last activity Dec 16, 2025 08:21PM
Yay Postcards! We are an International group of people who love reading and mail. Please join our monthly postcard exchange! Newbies Welcome!

Turtle Recall — 119 members — last activity Dec 16, 2025 06:28AM
Created for the 2020 Discworld Reading Challenge that will be hosted on A Dance with Books. However as time passes this group will move into just disc ...more

USQ Reading Challenge — 23 members — last activity Feb 12, 2019 03:47PM
The group was created for USQ Library staff participating in the Summer Reading Challenge.

Nonfiction November — 2650 members — last activity Oct 12, 2025 12:31PM
**Note** This event is no longer active. Thank you for 10 wonderful years! Please feel free to keep using this page as a resource. Welcome to Nonfict ...more

ESS readers — 100 members — last activity Feb 03, 2012 04:52PM
People who read Extremely Short Stories Facebook.com/FREEstory And people who are silly... Hangout and make some friends :)

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