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“You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.”
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“I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man - the galumphing, unshaven, stinking, opinionated off-spring - you see before you, with his parking tickets and unpolished shoes and complicated love life. You see all the people he has ever been all rolled up into one.
I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.”
― Me Before You
I look at him and see the baby I held in my arms, dewing besotted, unable to believe that I'd created another human being. I see the toddler, reaching for my hand, the schoolboy weeping tears of fury after being bullied by some other child. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history.”
― Me Before You
Marybeth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marybeth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
650 books
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21 friends
21 books
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6 friends
2 books
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72 friends
14 books
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33 friends
1 book
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7 friends
0 books
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1 friend
0 books
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31 friends
0 books
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46 friends
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