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The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia

by Grafton Tanner (Goodreads Author)

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Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

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Building Better Sentences

by Sam An Teng

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Renee’s Quotes

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

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“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
― Lily Tomlin

tags: apothegm, complain, humor

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“The menu is not the meal.”
― Alan Watts

tags: language, metaphysics, names, nominalism, philosophy, power-of-words, words

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“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.”
― Jacques Derrida

tags: censorship, language, speech, truth, writing

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PoppycropReadingClub — 6 members — last activity Aug 24, 2013 08:13AM
"Book group" sounds like we're all going to paint our nails and swill margaritas, while "reading club" has a pleasing academic ring. Hello! I'm sure ...more

Betsy-Tacy — 149 members — last activity Dec 09, 2017 02:15PM
Betsy-Tacy enthusiasts who share their love of literature even outside the realm of MHL

Newbery Books — 407 members — last activity Sep 26, 2013 02:37PM
A group for those of us who love children's literature, especially books that have been given a John Newbery Award for distinguished contributions to ...more

Abroad by Book — 39 members — last activity May 09, 2019 07:47AM
Abroad by Book is a group on GR only that is meant to promote travel writing and the reading of said writing through monthly group reads. ((Once enou ...more