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“Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”
― Virginia Wolfe

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Books & Things — 5 members — last activity Jan 05, 2015 08:45PM
A small group of Adelaidean students and postgrads getting together to share and read and chat about books.

Tudor Book Blog Book Club — 182 members — last activity Aug 18, 2015 03:16PM
A Book Club run by The Tudor Book Blog (http://www.thetudorbookblog.com), focusing on Tudor history, featuring both fiction and non-fiction books.

The History Book Club — 26511 members — last activity 2 hours, 53 min ago
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

No Soldier Outlives a Thousand Chances - WWI in Fiction Bookclub (2014-2018). — 14 members — last activity Apr 08, 2019 01:27PM
Reading our way through the various novels, adaptions and non-fiction books about World War One. Reading from 2014-2018. Novels: 1. All Quiet on th ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 222914 members — last activity Sep 15, 2026 08:37PM
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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