Shafaque

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Shafaque’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1377)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (381)
abandoned‎ (19)
ebooks‎ (289)
physical-books‎ (103)
urdu‎ (85)
2021-reads‎ (84)
fantasy‎ (71)
2024-reads‎ (63)
2020-reads‎ (57)

2023-reads‎ (56)
2022-reads‎ (52)
political-history‎ (34)
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non-fiction‎ (25)
islam‎ (22)
short-stories‎ (22)
palestine‎ (16)
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netgalley‎ (12)
poetry‎ (12)

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politics‎ (10)
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historical-fiction‎ (9)
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Shafaque’s Quotes

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

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“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

tags: advice-for-daily-living, books, reader, reading, speaking, thinking, wisdom

7771 likes

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

tags: books, history, reading

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“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

tags: indigenous, streets

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“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

tags: books, feelings, reading, thoughts

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