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Elisa is Currently Reading

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Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon

by Annie Mare (Goodreads Author)

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Automatic Noodle

by Annalee Newitz (Goodreads Author)

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Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

by T.J. Klune (Goodreads Author)

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Elisa’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done

Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done by Laura Vanderkam

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In my experience, professors sometimes grumble about teaching undergraduates. Bryant, on the other hand, envisions himself at a nursing home someday in the future. In this vision, his health is failing. He can no longer get around on his ...more

Chapter on savoring the present

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So much of what Laura Vanderkam says in this book has helped me this year, when we unexpectedly took in a foster-baby while both working full-time and parenting a toddler. One big realization for my s…

Elisa’s Quotes

“To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.”
― Abraham Heschel

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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer

tags: first-lines

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“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: first-lines, science-fiction

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“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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