Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads" Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads"

"Humans, for the most part you are dull and blundering, but occasionally you can be remarkably bright creatures." Marcellus, wise octopus of Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt

Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads"

A heart-breaking line from a wonderful graphic novel about traveling through the last decade as a bi-racial family with extended family in tow: "Sometimes, the people who love us will choose a world that doesn't." Mira Jacob's Good Talk: a Memoir in Conversations

Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads"

@tvrasche One more: Maybe my top recommendation given your "light(er). Deacon King Kong by James McBride. Loved it.

Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads"

@JoyceCarolOates One Day of Life, by Salvadoran author Manlio Argueta

Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads"

“The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one other. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their expansiveness.” ― Alice Walker, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

Phil Ruge-Jones "discount David Rhoads"

“Perhaps that is the miracle of stories. They make us realize that we’re not alone in our folly and our suffering.” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni