Susan

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Susan is Currently Reading

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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

by Joan Druett (Goodreads Author)

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May 07, 2026 10:25PM

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Katabasis

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 21, 2026 11:10PM

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The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind

by Michael S. Gazzaniga

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Susan’s Notes & Highlights

Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens

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This isn’t the first time we’ve talked about my overreactions, and then my overreaction to my overreaction. It’s funny I can even use that term with you, because if anyone else in my life even hints I’m overreacting it’s guaranteed to make ...more

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Susan’s Quotes

“Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

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“Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness—it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying On The Couch

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“We do not simply live in this universe. The universe lives within us. That”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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“Within the chemically rich liquid oceans, by a mechanism yet to be discovered, organic molecules transitioned to self-replicating life.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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“Digital life, and social media at its most complex, is an interweaving of public and private personas, a blending and splintering of identities unlike anything other generations have experienced.”
― Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

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