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	The Correspondent 4.54 avg rating — 329,404 ratings — published 2025 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I know you think of me as your mother only, but please remember, inside I am also just a girl.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

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“I know you know this, but I want to repeat that when someone(s) treats you poorly, it is a reflection of him or herself and the misery within the heart of them. It doesn’t help a bit to hear that when you’re young, but later it will.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

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“I didn't know it was happiness at the time, because it felt like busyness and exhaustion and financial stress and self doubt.”
― Virginia Evans, The Correspondent

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What shall we read in February, 2026? Books published after 1990.

The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans

10 votes 35.7%

The Song of the Blue Bottle Tree, by India Hayford

5 votes 17.9%

Miss Jane, by Brad Watson

5 votes 17.9%

Charms for the Easy Life, by Kaye Gibbons

5 votes 17.9%

Squeeze Me, by Carl Hiaasen

3 votes 10.7%

Sleeping at the Starlite Motel: and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home, by Bailey White

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