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again, only to groan, tear away from the illuminated buildings, and head into the blackness once more. Each stop was a luminescent island in the dark. The boat was a needle, threading the glowing pearls of an enormous necklace. Did the
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“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”
― Wonderstruck
― Wonderstruck
“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.� That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.
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― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
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― Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
Japanese Literature
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A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors, the arts, culture, and history of Japan. We have monthly fiction, non-fiction gr ...more
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
Mystery Madness
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March Mystery Madness Participants Group Welcome! This is a group for Mystery readers, particularly participants of the March Mystery Madness Readath ...more
Beyond Reality
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Welcome to the Beyond Reality SF&F discussion group on GoodReads. In Beyond Reality, each of our members may nominate one SF and one fantasy book per ...more
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