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The Heart of Resistance (The Heart of Resistance, #1)

by A.D. Griffey (Goodreads Author)

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"I was given a free copy of this in exchange for a review a while ago and I feel so guilty for not getting around to it sooner, but better late than never, right?" — Apr 25, 2026 12:03AM

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Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education

by Stratford Caldecott

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"Going slowly because this one has so much to ponder in it" — Apr 03, 2026 01:11PM

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The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)

by Mervyn Peake

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Elena’s Quotes

“Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Convenient Marriage

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“AND thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

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“You know, it won’t ever be like this again. Not ever. Just you and me, and this place and this time. Things only happen once.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home

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“...if you were convinced that the world had forgotten how to think and teach, if you believed it had discarded the beauty of art and literature, if you thought it had crushed the power of truth, would you let that world educate your children?”
― Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera

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“I hope that this will be a lesson to you not to go to fancy-dress balls as a lizard. If fewer people went about the place pretending to be lizards, this would be a better and sweeter world.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Hot Water

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*As of 1/8/25 group is under reconstruction* The title is basically it! It’s an online book club for anyone to join and have a great time within! We ...more