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The Road to Tender Hearts

by Annie Hartnett (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 14, 2026 07:32AM

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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

by Julia Ioffe

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Jun 30, 2026 05:37AM

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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

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

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

tags: bigotry, politics, racism

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