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April is Currently Reading

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Black House (The Talisman, #2)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Japanese Gothic

by Kylie Lee Baker (Goodreads Author)

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Orakel (Robert Grim #2)

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (Goodreads Author)

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April’s Notes & Highlights

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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

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We have about eighty thousand people in solitary confinement in this country, more than anywhere in the world. In California’s Pelican Bay state prison alone, more than five hundred prisoners had spent at least a decade in the hole. ...more

Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman

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A Cosmology of Monsters

by Shaun Hamill

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April’s Quotes

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

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“A right delayed is a right denied.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: liberty

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“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

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