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Claire

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Claire is Currently Reading

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Writing, Thinking, and the Brain: How Neuroscience Can Improve Writing Instruction

by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

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Beren and Lúthien

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Minds Made for Stories: How We Really Read and Write Informational and Persuasive Texts

by Thomas Newkirk

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Claire’s Quotes

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: books, learning, love, serenity

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“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: heathcliff, humour, mr-darcy, snooty, wuthering-heights

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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

tags: books, friends, reading, teachers

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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