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“We have no choice but to scramble to retrace our steps and to try, in a hurry now, to imagine things differently: other worlds, other ways of thinking, living, seeing. Other ways of writing, and of reading.”
― Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
― Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
“Do all people have one story that haunts them throughout their lives?”
― Evening
― Evening
“If we treat our forests right, we can at least ameliorate the declines in forest extent and diversity and the consequent impoverishment of the aesthetic, economic, climatic, and spiritual benefits we count on from them.”
― Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
― Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
“For every species of book person, the idea of Shakespeare’s library—his personal collection of manuscripts, books, letters and other papers—is enticing, totemic, a subject of wonder. How did he write? Who inspired him? Who appalled him? To know Shakespeare’s books is to know Shakespeare the author.”
― Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
― Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
“How painful and absurd, this fantasy that your own
labors might in turn be redeemed by strangers centuries and perhaps continents away who would need to hear what you had to whisper, this delusion that you were doing anything other than babbling because you like the sounds it makes, like a child blowing bubbles into milk.”
― Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
labors might in turn be redeemed by strangers centuries and perhaps continents away who would need to hear what you had to whisper, this delusion that you were doing anything other than babbling because you like the sounds it makes, like a child blowing bubbles into milk.”
― Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Q&A with author Susan Sherman
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Join acclaimed author Susan Sherman for a discussion of her novel, The Little Russian . This group will run February 4-February 17. This is a p ...more
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
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Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
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