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Ian is Currently Reading

Ian Martin is currently reading

Untethered Sky

by Fonda Lee (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 25, 2026 03:20PM

Ian’s Notes & Highlights

Beartown (Beartown, #1) by Fredrik Backman

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They weren’t old enough to know their multiplication tables, but they knew that a team didn’t mean anything if you couldn’t depend on each other. That’s both a big and a small thing. Knowing that there are people who will never abandon you.

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Ian’s Quotes

“But I can tell you that the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“My mom? When I was little, she used to do this thing at the movie theater where she would ask for an extra cup for water, but then she would fill it with butter from that li’l pump thing instead. And then when we got to the middle of the popcorn bag, we’d pour it in, and it was like a li’l butter refresher midway through.”
― Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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“people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

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“You told me once that a soul isn’t something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul—not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those who knew you.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

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“Wine, on the other hand, is like religion: it’s mysterious, sometimes literally opaque, and there are too many kinds of it. You never really know if a particular wine is good or bad; you just have to take it on faith from some judgy wine priest, an initiate to its mysteries. And wine is also like religion because the people who really get into it tend to be fucking unbearable.”
― John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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