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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.98 — 261,086 ratings — published 2021
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حوجن [Ḥawjan] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.78 — 19,182 ratings — published 2013
Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.18 — 184,217 ratings — published 2021
How Lucky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.76 — 30,861 ratings — published 2021
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,363,411 ratings — published 2020
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,194,142 ratings — published 2018
The Wife Upstairs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.71 — 333,069 ratings — published 2021
Survive the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.51 — 203,481 ratings — published 2021
We Ride Upon Sticks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.77 — 17,976 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.12 — 44,849 ratings — published 2020
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,464 ratings — published 2019
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.93 — 232,852 ratings — published 2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,631,338 ratings — published 2020
Hench (Hench, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,796 ratings — published 2020
Dear Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.04 — 60,905 ratings — published 2019
The Unhoneymooners (Unhoneymooners, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,192,706 ratings — published 2019
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.84 — 19,735 ratings — published 2019
Such a Fun Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.77 — 589,662 ratings — published 2019
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.80 — 27,410 ratings — published 2019
The Rage of Dragons (The Burning, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.30 — 51,413 ratings — published 2017
Gods of Jade and Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.87 — 80,976 ratings — published 2019
The Most Fun We Ever Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.89 — 170,683 ratings — published 2019
The Dark Lake (Gemma Woodstock #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.58 — 13,350 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Sand (The Books of Ambha, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,192 ratings — published 2018
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.80 — 41,237 ratings — published 2017
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,793 ratings — published 2018
The Dime (Betty Rhyzyk, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,510 ratings — published 2017
The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.06 — 277,445 ratings — published 2016
Beloved Poison (Jem Flockhart, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,139 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,496,558 ratings — published 2017
The Distant Hours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.89 — 86,623 ratings — published 2010
The Paris Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.82 — 308,350 ratings — published 2011
Wench (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,761 ratings — published 2010
The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.92 — 108,343 ratings — published 2017
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as novelist)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,518,590 ratings — published 2005
Bitter Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 3.82 — 17,172 ratings — published 2025
Not for Humans (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 4.16 — 460 ratings — published 2015
Zero Sum Game (Russell's Attic, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 3.86 — 660 ratings — published
لأنها كيارا (أنا هي الحرب، #١)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,011 ratings — published
بحيرة الدماء (بحيرة العشق، #2)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,358 ratings — published 2023
صائد الساحرات (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,584 ratings — published 2019
أكتب حتى لا يأكلني الشيطان (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,999 ratings — published
عودة الغائب (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 4.04 — 7,164 ratings — published 2008
قطز (فرسان وكهنة، #2)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,130 ratings — published 2014
ملحمة العرش والعشق (القمر الأحمر، #2)
by (shelved 1 time as novelist)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,452 ratings — published
“I counted my years and found that I have less time to live from here on than I have lived up to now.
I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began to enjoy them intensely.
I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be achieved.
I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven't grown up.
My time is too short:
I want the essence,
my soul is in a hurry.
I don't have many sweets
in the package anymore.
I want to live next to human people,
very human,
who know how to laugh at their mistakes,
and who are not inflated by their triumphs,
and who take on their responsibilities.
Thus, human dignity is defended, and we move towards truth and honesty.
It is the essential that makes life worth living.
I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life to grow with gentle touches of the soul.
Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.
I don't intend to waste any of the leftover sweets.
I am sure they will be delicious, much more than what I have eaten so far.
My goal is to reach the end satisfied
and at peace with my loved ones
and my conscience.
We have two lives.
And the second begins when you realize you only have one.
Credits: Mário Raul de Morais Andrade
(Oct 9, 1893 – Feb 25, 1945)
Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, photographer”
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I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began to enjoy them intensely.
I no longer have time for endless meetings where statutes, rules, procedures and internal regulations are discussed, knowing that nothing will be achieved.
I no longer have time to support the absurd people who, despite their chronological age, haven't grown up.
My time is too short:
I want the essence,
my soul is in a hurry.
I don't have many sweets
in the package anymore.
I want to live next to human people,
very human,
who know how to laugh at their mistakes,
and who are not inflated by their triumphs,
and who take on their responsibilities.
Thus, human dignity is defended, and we move towards truth and honesty.
It is the essential that makes life worth living.
I want to surround myself with people who know how to touch hearts, people who have been taught by the hard blows of life to grow with gentle touches of the soul.
Yes, I'm in a hurry, I'm in a hurry to live with the intensity that only maturity can give.
I don't intend to waste any of the leftover sweets.
I am sure they will be delicious, much more than what I have eaten so far.
My goal is to reach the end satisfied
and at peace with my loved ones
and my conscience.
We have two lives.
And the second begins when you realize you only have one.
Credits: Mário Raul de Morais Andrade
(Oct 9, 1893 – Feb 25, 1945)
Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, photographer”
―
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!”
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