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Jacob Petersen

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Dead Beat (Ninth House Trilogy, #3)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 16, 2026 08:10PM

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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

by Anna Lembke

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Operation Bounce House

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Jacob’s Notes & Highlights

Normal People by Sally Rooney

1 note & 1 highlight

There’s a Kanye West song playing, the one with the Curtis Mayfield sample.

"Touch The Sky" from the 2005 album Late Registration. The first line of the song is literally: " Gotta testify, come up in the spot looking super fly." Rooney literally just xescribed what everyonr in the club was wearing. Someone just made fun of Marianne's outfit, and this is clearly one of the first times she has tried to look good. Kanye sas in the song: "I just wanted to shine!"

One Day

by David Nicholls

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The Intelligent Investor

by Benjamin Graham

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Jacob’s Quotes

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery

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“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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“We think of science as discovery, art as invention, but is there a “third world” of mathematics, which is somehow, mysteriously, both?”
― Oliver Sacks, On the Move: A Life

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“She believes Marianne lacks ‘warmth’, by which she means the ability to beg for love from people who hate her.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“My ego had always been an issue. I knew that intellectual attainment was morally neutral at best, but when bad things happened to me I made myself feel better by thinking about how smart I was.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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