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Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Susan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Susan Kay Harris
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in Blue Ash, Ohio, The United States
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Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Jane Austen, John Fowles, Elizabeth Gilbe
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Lord Jim
Lord Jim by Joseph ConradMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I've been wanting to read this book for ages already. I read "The Secret Sharer" in college and was very impressed with Conrad's style. Had this book been written in the 21st century, it probably would have been edited down to about 2/3 (at least) and I'm pretty sure they would have cut out most of the narrator's quotations marks (he is telling t Read more of this blog post »
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I must have read this more than twenty years ago and it has always stayed in my mind. Re-reading it now, I am astonished at what my mind kept and what it discarded. Apparently, now it takes a book like this in differently than it did way back then. " ...more |
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"“It may all sound very petty to complain about, but I tell you that sort of thing settles down on one like a fine dust.”
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"HOW NOT TO HELP A NOVEL READER
He looked at Edna's book, which he had read; and he told her the end, to save her the trouble of wading through it, he said. ORIGINALITY IS NOT THE POINT HERE If you piled up all the novels about marital infidelity you wo" Read more of this review » |
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"If a woman decides out of whim to shun the familial responsibilities of motherhood and wife and become a servant to her passing senses – she should be rebuked. If a man does it – he should be rebuked all the same. Any person regardless of gender, age"
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
― How to Win Friends & Influence People
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
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“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
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Roman Clodia
Aug 05, 2019 10:40AM
Hi Susan - yes, maybe we can tell more about a person from the books they don't get on with!
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Thanks for the friend request and the comment about We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. I don't often find myself disagreeing with popular opinion but I really didn't like that book!
Thank you for the friend request, Susan. Looking forward to reading your reviews and talking books! :)
