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Hope Jahren
“Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the sick and the not sick. If you are not sick, shut up and help. Twenty-five years later, I still cannot reject this as an inaccurate worldview.”
Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
Alfred Mercier

Carlo Rovelli
“In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time- something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.”
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“If physical discomfort discourages the reading of texts sequentially, from start to finish, computers make it spectacularly easy to move through texts in other ways – in particular, by searching for particular pieces of information. Reading in this strategic, targeted manner can feel empowering. Instead of surrendering to the organizing logic of the book you are reading, you can approach it with your own questions and glean precisely what you want from it. You are the master, not some dead author. And this is precisely where the greatest dangers lie, because when reading, you should not be the master. Information is not knowledge; searching is not reading; and surrendering to the organizing logic of a book is, after all, the way one learns.”
David A. Bell

Carrie Fisher
“If you look at the person someone chooses to have a relationship with, you’ll see what they think of themselves.”
Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

25x33 The Bookish Club — 3 members — last activity Oct 22, 2011 11:17PM
A book club for the Lundberg sisters. Keeping in touch around the world through books.
3151 Sassy Ladies Book Club — 6 members — last activity Feb 23, 2008 05:27PM
Find out what the sassy ladies are reading/are going to read/have read!
645 Wodehouse cracks me up — 396 members — last activity Feb 04, 2026 08:05AM
All Wodehouse, all the time. From Psmith to Blandings, from Uncle Fred to the incomparable Jeeves. Step right up, you'll be Right Ho-ing and stealing ...more
4825 Milwaukee Book Club — 2 members — last activity May 13, 2008 10:18AM
Milwaukee Book Club
25x33 DSHA books — 1 member — last activity Jun 09, 2010 10:09AM
A group for the TSC and students of DSHA to share and discuss books
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