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August’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at August’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
August Thompson’s Followers (225)
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August Thompson
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Laconia, NH, The United States
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Elena Ferrante, Jennifer Egan, James Baldwin, Ruth Ozeki, Junot Diaz,
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January 2012
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Anyone's Ghost
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2024
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16 editions
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| Maybe the best novel ever written. The level of empathy Eliot shows to her characters is all but unmatched. The novel's humanist turn and interpretations of how we let ego dominate our live's narratives really sold it for me. The sense of humor is ac ...more | |
"I read Middlemarch over the last three months. I am not well read in the classics, or even much backlist. However, I often see Middlemarch referred to as a “perfect novel,” and I was looking for a challenge. The final push to make me pick this up was"
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| A masterful, ceaseless anxiety dream of a novel. I found this to be a singularly dread-filled experience, but one that was also pleasurable and often very funny. This is the 4th Ishiguro I read this year and probably my third favorite of the eight I' ...more | |
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“I would give anything to change the nature of the world, even if I could change it just for you.”
― Anyone's Ghost
― Anyone's Ghost
“We can take it slow; we can move fast. You can leave me and come back. You can be exactly who you are or you can be what you've always wanted to be. You can sell that gold twisted band, and we can find a studio in Queens, and I can cut your hair every other month. Let's live off rice and beans, oranges when they're in season. Let's make friends and forget them for days and weeks at a time. Let's ward off all of the terror with talk. Let's make love over and over, until our ribs hurt and we think we're tired of it, then do it once more, just to see if there's still life to be made.”
― Anyone's Ghost
― Anyone's Ghost
“It’s all here, it’s now if we want it to be. Time, distance, they’re no longer the problem. The problem is courage. The courage I need and the courage you want. We can find it in each other, I swear. I swear, if you’ll just let me show you.”
― Anyone's Ghost
― Anyone's Ghost
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
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