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Barbara is Currently Reading

Barbara Brien is currently reading

Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues (A Dixie Hemingway Mystery, #3)

by Blaize Clement

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Feb 20, 2023 04:57PM

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Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

by Robert Galbraith

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— Oct 22, 2018 09:59AM

Oct 22, 2018 10:00AM

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The Leavers

by Lisa Ko (Goodreads Author)

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(page 127 of 338)
— Aug 18, 2018 01:28PM

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Barbara’s Quotes

“We passed a pickup that was doing fifty-five in a fifty-five. Clearly a sociopath.”
― Andrew Shaffer, Hope Never Dies

tags: humor

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“The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term “people” to actually mean.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.”
― Alastair Reynolds

tags: death, existence

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“...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs.”
― Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

tags: doubt, government, jfk

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“...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.”
― Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film

tags: best-intentions, media, understanding

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