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Sirena is Currently Reading

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Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind

by Michelle Carr

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A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)

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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

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Reading for the 2nd time

read in April 2016

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Sirena said: " I love this book, but I love reading it more than I loved listening to it. "

May 25, 2016 09:17AM · see review

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Sirena’s Quotes

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Fickt nicht mit dem Raketemensch!”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: atheism, dislikes, racism, religion, scepticism, stupidity, superstition

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

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“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: afterlife, atheism, humanism, secularism

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