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Chris Craddock
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“Reading has been a constant in my life. I have always found comfort in the confines of a book or manuscript. Reading is how I spend most of my time, is still the most joyful aspect of my day. I want to be remembered not as an editor or publisher but as a reader.”
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“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
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“In short, this was a period in which the phrase ‘you’re never alone with a good book’ started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.”
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
“It would be a good thing to buy books if one could also buy the time to read them; but one usually confuses the purchase of books with the acquisition of their contents.”
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
“I think genre rules should be porous, if not nonexistent.”
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Bukowski
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This is a group for fans of the dirty old man. The words he wrote kept him from total madness.
Marcel Proust
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— last activity Mar 05, 2026 07:26PM
Here is a place to talk about Proust and his masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time". ...more
50 Book Pledge
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This year, we're challenging the #50BookPledge community to read 150,000 books! Sign up for the 50 Book Pledge at http://50bookpledge.ca and pledge t ...more
What's the Name of That Book???
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Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more
European Literature in Translation
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This group explores European literature in translation (i.e. it generally excludes works originally written in English, but we are bound to wander at ...more
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Business, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Self help, and Spirituality
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