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“If assumptions weren't challenged, innovation would cease.”
― The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
― The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
“the phrase “stay-at-home mom” is patronizing and faintly derogatory, like “stick-in-the-mud mom” or “sit-in-the-corner mom.” Do we talk about a “chained-to-the-desk mom” or a “stuck-in-traffic mom” or a “languishing-in-meetings mom”?”
― Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture
― Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“I don't think that we should underestimate the capacity of tenderness that poetry opens within us.”
― How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
― How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
“The lie rushes in to fill up the void left by the truth in retreat. When people lose their faith in God, for example, they do not believe in nothing. It is as Chesterton said, they will believe in anything, usually the nearest and biggest thing, the gross power of the state to solve their problems.”
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Reading the Detectives
— 2332 members
— last activity 1 hour, 31 min ago
Our group reads vintage British mysteries from the Golden Age and beyond. In 2025 and 2026 our challenge is Christie's Detectives: Poirot vs Marple. W ...more
English Mysteries Club
— 2908 members
— last activity 3 hours, 38 min ago
Do you love mysteries written in the "English" style? Why not come and join us? We are an established group of mystery readers, which re-launched in 2 ...more
Catholic Fiction
— 772 members
— last activity Feb 22, 2025 08:50AM
A community that loves stories which are animated by God, our faith and the Catholic imagination.
Tudor History Lovers
— 3133 members
— last activity May 17, 2026 08:41PM
Anyone who enjoys historical fiction or history books about Tudor England will like this group. Whether you have been all the way to England just to t ...more
Agatha Christie Lovers
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— last activity 9 hours, 10 min ago
We are reading her books from the first one published to the last one published each month. However, do not let that stop you from reading them out of ...more
Mary Ellen’s 2025 Year in Books
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