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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

by Karen Swallow Prior

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Sep 14, 2026 04:55AM

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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)

by Linda Åkeson McGurk (Goodreads Author)

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Sticks Across the Chimney: A Story of Denmark

by Nora Burglon

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Rachel’s Notes & Highlights

The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

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Time is a commodity, after all, and we’re destitute, every one of us.

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Rachel’s Quotes

“looking back on the pages of history in every civilized land, one cannot help but admit that vanity in men and women has caused more mischief, more misery and greater disasters than any other frailty to which humanity is heir.”
― Emmuska Orczy, The Classic Collection of Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Novels, Short Stories. Illustrated: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Leads the Band, Sir Percy Hits ... Pimpernel, Mam’zelle Guillotine and others

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“It suddenly became apparent to me that happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness, for I never knew we were so happy until Sara’s unhappiness stared me in the face.”
― Jean Sasson, Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

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“Words had become to him a means of obscuring facts—not of revealing them. He was an adept in the art of the useful phrase—that is to say the phrase that falls soothingly on the ear and is quite empty of meaning.”
― Agatha Christie, The Labors of Hercules

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“I sifted and resifted my memories of Aeëtes, all those hours we had leaned against each other. That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

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“In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution. I don’t even know that white people see transcendence the way we do. I’m not sure that their dichotomies apply to me.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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