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Sirena

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Sirena is Currently Reading

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Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] (Vera Wong, #2)

by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Goodreads Author)

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In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way (v. 3) by Proust, Marcel [Paperback(1998/11/3)]

by Marcel Proust

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read in May 2026

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A Confederacy of Dunces

by John Kennedy Toole

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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

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: bigotry, politics, racism

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“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: happiness, life

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“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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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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“If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.”
― John Scalzi

tags: feminism, homophobia, political-correctness, racism, sexism, social-consciousness, social-justice

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Literary Lushes is a book club for ladies in Louisville, Kentucky who love to read a variety of literature and enjoy drinking the occasional beverage.

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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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