C. Adam Volle

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C. Adam’s Bookshelves

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C. Adam is Currently Reading

C. Adam Volle is currently reading

L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future, Volume 40

by Jody Lynn Nye (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: books-to-read-in-2025, sff, short-stories, bought-but-not-read, books-to-read-in-2026, currently-reading

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"The novel I asked to borrow from the library is taking forever, so I decided to read a short story or two while I wait.

“The Edge of Where My Light Is Cast” by Sky McKinnon has a cute idea and makes a sweet story from it. We’re off to a good start." — 20 minutes ago

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C. Adam Volle is currently reading

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

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C. Adam’s Quotes

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

45 likes

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

1288 likes

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than the life force and may the love of that force guide you as you go.”
― Patti Smith, Early Work 1970-1979

tags: inspirational

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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: reality-bothered

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