Tim Rooney

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Tim Rooney

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Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Bone by Jeff Smith

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison

The Plague by Albert Camus

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V

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2018‎ (3)
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Teenage Mutant Ni...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: Saturday Morning Adventures (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures 2023-)

by Erik Burnham (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 11, 2025 07:25PM

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Sonic the Hedgehog, Vol. 18: Extreme Competition (Sonic The Hedgehog (2018-))

by Evan Stanley

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Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Vol. 2

by Stan Sakai

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Tim’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Road

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

He’d had this feeling before, beyond the numbness and the dull despair. The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to ...more

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Tim’s Quotes

Grant Morrison

“Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

tags: ideas, superman

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Melissa

139 books | 52 friends

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Jamie

487 books | 70 friends

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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science fiction, Spirituality, Travel, and War

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