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A lot of this book is questionable with tons of speculation — one of the things I most have trouble with is believing part of the nuclear protocol has the president jumping out of an airplane with a parachute … okayyyyyyyyyy 🤔

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What are your favorite NONFICTION spooky reads for the season?

Wow— this is hitting me in the feelz today ❤️🥹

What are some of your favorite witchy or spooky Halloween reads? I want to read some good ones this month!

Just hit 9/11 — wonder what the last half will be!

“the Johnny Appleseed of peyote”

Flashbacks on flashbacks on flashbacks 🥴

The advantage of telling the truth is you don’t have to remember what you said.

— Rita Mae Brown

Have you ever bought a book primarily for the cover/title?

(I have!)

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."

— Jack Kerouac

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”

— Francis Bacon

"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."

— Virginia Woolf

When I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liquor until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.

— Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

“The fatal metaphor of progress,
which means leaving things behind us,
has utterly obscured the real idea of growth,
which means leaving things inside us.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

"But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands."

— Daphne du Maurier

Is anyone else having this problem?
For some books, not all — it shows me the community ratings, but NOT my friends ratings for books.
I've tried on my phone, laptop, Safari, and Chrome, and always the same thing. It's so weird, because it's not all books only some. For example, I can't see any of my friend's ratings for Dune. What is up!?!?!

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Does everyone else also have 10-15 books "going" at once or are you normal?

Okayyy