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Laura

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Laura’s Bookshelves

read‎ (2226)
currently-reading‎ (0)
to-read‎ (326)
fantasy‎ (414)
graphic-novel‎ (307)
fanfiction‎ (306)
history‎ (280)
being-human‎ (242)
civilization‎ (241)
government‎ (237)
young-adult‎ (236)
coming-of-age‎ (202)

americas‎ (194)
alternate-history‎ (179)
apocalypse‎ (178)
law‎ (167)
politics‎ (165)
science-fiction‎ (146)
myth‎ (145)
hero-s-journey‎ (138)
monsters‎ (135)
metatexts‎ (133)
cthulhu‎ (125)
book-club‎ (123)

autobiography‎ (107)
commentary‎ (93)
courtship‎ (93)
death‎ (91)
future-history‎ (90)
biography‎ (89)
washington-state-law-library‎ (74)
fairies‎ (72)
nostalgia-for-feudalism‎ (72)
zombies‎ (71)
law-enforcement‎ (69)
lgbtqi‎ (65)

timey-whimy‎ (64)
transformation‎ (64)
dragons‎ (62)
semi-dystopian‎ (62)
dogs‎ (61)
war‎ (61)
triangle-trade‎ (60)
vampires‎ (59)
infrastructure‎ (58)
english‎ (57)
cats‎ (56)
washington-state‎ (56)

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Laura’s Quotes

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy

5140 likes

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, knowledge

6883 likes

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

23375 likes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32096 likes

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

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Laura’s Groups

The Geek Girls Book Club — 749 members — last activity Apr 10, 2023 09:03PM
The GGBC grew out of NYT TV reviewer Ginina Bellafonte's comments on her review of "A Game of Thrones", saying that: "While I do not doubt that ther ...more

Not Quite A Topless Robot Book Club — 31 members — last activity Mar 13, 2013 03:42PM
A group for readers and contributors of Topless Robot, regular commentors, semi-regular commentors, rare commentors, lurkers, and friends of all of th ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 278111 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Q & A with Lawrence M. Schoen — 61 members — last activity Mar 04, 2014 11:49PM
Discussion about Science Fiction and Fantasy, about writing, about language and linguistics in sf & f, about Klingon in particular, about small press ...more

Friends of Victor Torvich — 105 members — last activity Mar 11, 2025 08:16PM
Group of friends of Victor Torvich, that are or were interested in History books.

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