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Mike’s favorite books

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

I Can't Tell You by Hillary Frank

Fire on the Mountain by Edward Abbey

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

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Mike is Currently Reading

Bringing Up Bébé:...

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Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman (Goodreads Author)

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The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map – How Neuroscience and Behavioral Psychology Explain Our Primal Urge to Explore

by Alex Hutchinson (Goodreads Author)

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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

by Ronen Bergman

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Mike’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey

And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain?

Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka

by Bernadette McDonald

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Mike’s Quotes

“To know a mountain, you must sleep on it. —Tom Longstaff, This My Voyage”
― Bernadette McDonald, Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka

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“Physical exertion is the best food for your spirit and your brain.”
― Bernadette McDonald, Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka

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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours”
― Bernadette McDonald, Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka

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