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Reading for the 2nd time
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And starts out engagingly interestingly!
I've wanted to get around to this for so l ...more "
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"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't." — Mar 02, 2010 04:14AM
"2nd _: Love it. It's like visiting and old friend. In an interview, Chakram talks of his younger sister who says: Don't Bore Me! He doesn't." — Mar 02, 2010 04:14AM
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"And the 2nd story, 2nd of 3 from child's perspective - also involving scary man. Hmmm.." — Dec 08, 2009 06:41AM
"And the 2nd story, 2nd of 3 from child's perspective - also involving scary man. Hmmm.." — Dec 08, 2009 06:41AM
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I believe he's only within my radar now due to Go ...more "
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"Finished first part, about a fifth. Wow, very enveloping and rich.." — Dec 06, 2009 05:07PM
"Finished first part, about a fifth. Wow, very enveloping and rich.." — Dec 06, 2009 05:07PM


“Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over. ”
― The Last Summer of You and Me
― The Last Summer of You and Me

“India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.”
― The Weight of Heaven
― The Weight of Heaven

“Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.”
― The Help
― The Help

“The argument that Saddam Hussein was a bad man and had to be removed simply won't do. There are many bad men around the world who run countries and we don't topple them, and, indeed, in earlier years we actually supported Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and an unacceptable argument for regime change.”
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“If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest -- like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably -- was out of their hands, beyond.”
― Snow Falling on Cedars
― Snow Falling on Cedars

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