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Judy is Currently Reading

Judy Monchuk is currently reading

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

by Wright Thompson

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-history, african-american, civil-rights, crime, history, non-fiction, race, politics, social-justice, true-crime

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— Mar 07, 2026 12:01PM

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On Freedom

by Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author)

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“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.”
― Timothy Egan

tags: writing

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“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims– and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“If the rule of thumb for attention literacy is to pay attention to your intention, then the heuristic for crap detection is to make skepticism your default.”
― Howard Rheingold, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online

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“I absolutely demand of you and everyone I know that they be widely read in every damn field there is; in every religion and every art form and don’t tell me you haven’t got time! There’s plenty of time. You need all of these cross-references. You never know when your head is going to use this fuel, this food for its purposes. —Ray Bradbury”
― Annie Spence, Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

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