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“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic light on the wide earth, leaping audaciously to the sky, presently to be quenched by time, more cruel, more pitiless, more bitter than the sea—and like the flames of the burning ship surrounded by an impenetrable night.”
― Youth, a Narrative
― Youth, a Narrative
“There’s no more doomed a struggle than a battle with the imaginary.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune.”
― Hopscotch
― Hopscotch
“The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Glynis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Glynis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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186 books
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142 books
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304 books
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191 books
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75 books
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203 books
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