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Raquel’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Raquel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Raquel Fontão’s Followers (48)
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Raquel Fontão
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Raquel Fontão
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
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Readers' Favorite History & Biography
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Final Round
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Raquel Fontão
voted for
Finding My Way
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Readers' Favorite Memoir
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Final Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Um livro e uma escrita fabulosos. E um passeio por tantas memórias nostálgicas esquecidas. Este livro fez-me repensar o destino do nosso corpo e dos nossos ossos após a morte. Foi uma viagem magnífica! |
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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“I remember one morning...
getting up at dawn...
there was such a sense of possibility!
You know? That feeling?
And... and I remember thinking to myself:
'So this is the beginning of happiness...'
'This is where it starts!'
'And, of course, there'll always be more.'
Never occurred to me
it wasn't the beginning,
It was happiness.
It was the moment...”
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getting up at dawn...
there was such a sense of possibility!
You know? That feeling?
And... and I remember thinking to myself:
'So this is the beginning of happiness...'
'This is where it starts!'
'And, of course, there'll always be more.'
Never occurred to me
it wasn't the beginning,
It was happiness.
It was the moment...”
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“Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Peril at End House
"An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
― Peril at End House
“O ato de partir é o mais corajoso e o mais belo. Estar só, ser livre de necessidades, ser ignorada, estrangeira e nativa em todos os lugares e caminhar, solitária e grande, à conquista do mundo.”
― The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
― The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
Mulheres de letras
— 12 members
— last activity Dec 26, 2018 02:15PM
Um grupo onde as maratonas e os desafios levam a leitura individualizada a ultrapassar fronteiras..
Books in the Freezer
— 950 members
— last activity Dec 31, 2023 07:11PM
A group for listeners of the Books in the Freezer podcast. Where we can talk about the books mentioned on the show.
Horror Spotlight
— 1422 members
— last activity Mar 20, 2023 07:29AM
We read diverse horror. Our readalongs take place on our discord server each month.
Jane Austen July 2025
— 1570 members
— last activity Aug 11, 2025 11:13AM
Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon, all about reading Jane Austen and related works. ---The Challenges--- 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six ...more
Buzzwordathon
— 6238 members
— last activity Nov 07, 2025 03:53PM
The Buzzword Readathon (#buzzwordathon) is a monthly readathon, running the first week of each month (1st through 7th). Each month will have a designa ...more
Night Worms Book Club
— 491 members
— last activity Oct 10, 2021 09:03AM
If you are a Night Worms subscriber or just want awesome book recs, this is the place for you! We will share the books included in our monthly package ...more
