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Brett is Currently Reading

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Floppy Did This! (Read With Biff, Chip and Kipper)

by Roderick Hunt

bookshelves: childrens, used-for-esl, currently-reading

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Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 5: More Storybooks A: Underground Adventure

by Roderick Hunt

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Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, #5)

by Mary Pope Osborne

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Brett’s Notes & Highlights

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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: “I don’t intend to publish. I am merely going to record the facts for the information of God.” “Don’t you think God knows the facts?” ...more

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Brett’s Quotes

“Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

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“He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It’s fucking near water.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

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“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: cookies, descriptions, ghosts, humor, scent, setting, smell

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“It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

tags: america, humor

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“If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

tags: humor

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