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1974: A Personal History

by Francine Prose (Goodreads Author)

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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)

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The Black Box: Writing the Race

by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Jim’s Quotes

“Travel without surprise was merely an agenda.”
― Jim Malusa, Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents

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“I was able to see the love of God paving the world around me but I distrusted this knowledge because it was concrete.”
― Joni Tevis

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“Younger writers are always looking for "blurbs," one of the few words that sounds exactly as awful as the crime it's describing.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 3

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“Wherever you go in the world, most people are pretty nice. They are eager to show you the best parts of the places they live. What gives interlopers the right to riffle through their dirty laundry?”
― Chuck Thompson

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“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women. He never slept without a book.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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