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It is the paradox of being Alaskan: This state is home to rugged individualists who nonetheless know there will come a time, amid the cold, unpitying winters, when they will need help.
“So many books, so little time.”
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
The Book was Better
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The Book Club. Designed to help us branch out to new genres. Along with reaching our reading goals for the year, we are creating an environment to dis ...more
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A place for me to put my book discussions for the books I read in addition to my main book club. I just need another platform I can write about the b ...more
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Goodreads Discord monthly book club! 2025 Themes: January: Tearjerkers February: Fact-Filled February March: Leading Ladies April: Life Lessons May: ...more
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Spencer’s 2025 Year in Books
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