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"Is it just me or is it truly one big difficult book???!!!! I’m still having a hard time getting through the first hundred pages. I let it sit for a while then picked it back up… same problem. 😩" — Mar 22, 2026 08:31AM
"Is it just me or is it truly one big difficult book???!!!! I’m still having a hard time getting through the first hundred pages. I let it sit for a while then picked it back up… same problem. 😩" — Mar 22, 2026 08:31AM
These were the times of ugliness when he loved her, when pity and responsibility reached the intensity of a passion.
“Things here were new, clean, better. But there were days when he felt he had traded his life for somebody else’s and gotten the wrong size.”
― Everyone Knows You Go Home
― Everyone Knows You Go Home
“Being unmarried in a man’s world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“الوصول أكثر مشقة من الرحيل”
― ناقة صالحة
― ناقة صالحة
“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.”
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Short & Sweet Treats
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— last activity Dec 15, 2021 04:49AM
Welcome to Short & Sweet Treats! We are here to read books together, engage in discussions, and have fun. We play lots of games and read lots of go ...more
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? ...more
Middle East/North African Lit
— 2420 members
— last activity May 17, 2026 02:54PM
Current banner photo : Gaza at Palestine #Land day https://altahrir.wordpress.com/2020/02/04/land-in-eastern-gaza-declared-a-disaster-zone-due-to-isr ...more
Around the World
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Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more
The World's Literature in India
— 879 members
— last activity May 13, 2026 01:55AM
Literature from the languages of India. Photos: Crowded street in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Indian peafowls, relatives of the pheasant.
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