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“My legs danced with the trail. My body flowed with the mountains. Every step I took was charged with gratitude and joy.”

Cried during the prologue so we’re off to a good start

I was in the middle of this book but inadvertently left it partway up a mountain so i’m going to have to nab a library copy!

“One of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they’ll try to make you believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it’s a trick. The assault is never personal, the blaming is.”

“My heart had hands, the hands were reaching out for something my brain had already forgotten.”

Does anyone else not realize how many holds they've put in at the library until they all become available at the same time? I'm all stressed now that I've got to read all of these great books in a hurry!

This is like the strange whimsy and delight you get from Jonathan Carroll but with so much more heart.

"For the brief moment that I am trying to get into her head, I have to enter her perspective as I would try to enter that of a character in a work of fiction. I have to novelize her...theory of mind is a misnomer. It has more to do with fiction-writing than it does with science."

Maybe robots won't kill us if they read "good" books: http://www.futurity.org/stories-robot...

What books do you think would be best to teach a robot to behave like a good person? Which ones would be a bad idea?

This book is ruining my life omg.