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Sarah is 15% done with How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“…Monticello is a plantation, and that slavery was a system that created the economic prosperity that enabled our country to exist.”
Feb 16, 2026 09:58PM Add a comment
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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Sarah is 6% done with How to Read a Book
“I am a reader. I am intelligent. I have something worthy to contribute.”
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How to Read a Book

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Sarah is 92% done with The Correspondent
“I guess there is no bottom to a person, but I feel you have left fewer stones unturned than anyone else who’s ever passed through, and it’s taken me some time to recognize how knowing you has been like coming in from the cold, lonely road to find a warm fire and a table laid.”
Jan 27, 2026 01:59AM Add a comment
The Correspondent

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Sarah is 82% done with Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
We live in between what we choose and what is chosen for us.
Jan 22, 2026 03:21AM Add a comment
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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Sarah is on page 98 of 400 of The Botanist's Daughter
“‘Tis often a wise notion to adapt to the culture you find yourself in.”
Jan 04, 2026 03:20PM Add a comment
The Botanist's Daughter

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Sarah is 12% done with Atmosphere
“My mom said that if I was going to be proud of myself for being generous, that I had to do it even when it meant I might lose something. She said, ‘You have to have something on the line, for it to be called character.’l
Dec 21, 2025 12:13PM Add a comment
Atmosphere

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Sarah is 87% done with Circe
Some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.
Dec 20, 2025 12:02PM Add a comment
Circe

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Sarah is 4% done with Circe
“Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
Nov 25, 2025 02:56AM Add a comment
Circe

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Sarah is 74% done with Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“America had given her so much in the four years since she arrived, but it also regularly reminded her of how it saw people like her.”
Nov 23, 2025 01:56PM Add a comment
Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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Sarah is on page 487 of 496 of Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
“Some boats are made for the river and some for the ocean. And there are some that can go anywhere because they always know the way home.”
Aug 18, 2025 08:54PM Add a comment
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)

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Sarah is on page 123 of 496 of Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
“Walking through life with integrity means not deceiving yourself or others.”
Aug 10, 2025 08:09AM Add a comment
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)

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Sarah is on page 24 of 496 of Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
“When someone dies, everything about them becomes past tense. Except for the grief. Grief stays in the present.”
Aug 03, 2025 09:15AM Add a comment
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)

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Sarah is on page 17 of 290 of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
“Citing such differences, these experts have concluded that some cultures, however sophisticated they become, remain at their core tribal, in that the obligations the individual owes to others within the tribe are very different from those owed to outsiders.”
Aug 03, 2025 04:18AM Add a comment
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

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Sarah is 70% done with The Lion Women of Tehran
“That’s how losses of rights build. They start small. And then soon, the rights are stripped in droves.”
Jul 19, 2025 06:24AM Add a comment
The Lion Women of Tehran

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Sarah is 11% done with The Lion Women of Tehran
“The only society worth living in is one where everyone has access to food, shelter, clean water, and health services.”
Jul 13, 2025 01:27PM Add a comment
The Lion Women of Tehran

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Sarah is on page 163 of 320 of Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat
“Parents have an uncanny ability to know when their children are having a hard time. Just by glancing at their back, the way they stoop, they can tell if something’s bothering their child. Parents always know.”
Jul 03, 2025 03:59AM Add a comment
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat

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Sarah is on page 10 of 320 of Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat
“Towards a world where we can sleep without worry.”
Jun 21, 2025 10:04AM Add a comment
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat

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Sarah is on page 307 of 436 of My Friends
“It’s a funny thing. The person we fall in love with, we hardly ever call by their name. Because it’s somehow just so obvious that it’s you I’m talking to, that it’s you I’m always thinking of. Who else?”
Jun 02, 2025 01:48AM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 208 of 436 of My Friends
“The most remarkable thing about losing a parent is that you don’t even need to miss them for their loss to be felt. The basic function of a parent is just to exist. You have to be there, like ballast in a boat, because otherwise your child capsizes.”
Jun 01, 2025 02:08AM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 186 of 436 of My Friends
“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
May 31, 2025 02:00PM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 180 of 436 of My Friends
“You can’t love someone out of addiction, all the oceans are the tears of those who have tried. We’re not allowed to die for our children, the universe won’t let us, because then there wouldn’t be any mothers left.”
May 31, 2025 01:59PM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 149 of 436 of My Friends
“She had to be both mother and father to the boys, and no doubt she did her best, and that’s the worst thing about being a parent: that almost everyone does their best, but almost all fail regardless.”
May 29, 2025 01:53PM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 132 of 436 of My Friends
“There’s a kind of boundary for the sort of emotions you’re prepared to share with others when you’re hardly comfortable sharing them with yourself.”
May 23, 2025 03:08PM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 77 of 436 of My Friends
“It’s hard to say ‘I love you’ when you’re fourteen years old. And completely impossible to dare to whisper: “Don’t hurt yourself, because you’d be hurting me, too.’”
May 14, 2025 04:16AM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 38 of 436 of My Friends
“He would often try to think that perhaps that has to be the case: that our teenage years have to simultaneously be the brightest light and the darkest depths, because that’s how we learn to figure out our horizons.”
May 12, 2025 11:46PM Add a comment
My Friends

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Sarah is on page 355 of 391 of Mayluna
“We try so hard to be a good example for our kids. But maybe what they really need is to see us as human.”
Feb 09, 2025 02:34AM Add a comment
Mayluna

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Sarah is on page 350 of 391 of Mayluna
“The one we love the most in life may not be the one we love the best.”
Feb 09, 2025 02:25AM Add a comment
Mayluna

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Sarah is on page 285 of 391 of Mayluna
“There are different kinds of love in this world, and there is room for all of it.”
Feb 08, 2025 01:30PM Add a comment
Mayluna

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Sarah is on page 86 of 391 of Mayluna
“But that’s the funny thing about the universe—it has such wondrous possibilities for us, far beyond anything we could imagine for our own lives. Even when it seems like life is going to be a series of predictable days. All we have to do is open our eyes and believe in them: the possibilities. Expect the unexpected and that’s where you’ll find the magic.”
Feb 04, 2025 06:03AM Add a comment
Mayluna

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Sarah is on page 42 of 391 of Mayluna
“Sometimes you have to do that—take the thing about you that makes you the saddest and learn how to spin it into a superpower.”
Feb 03, 2025 05:07PM Add a comment
Mayluna

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