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“Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
“Thanks to the imagination, there’s no end to things in this world that can trigger anxiety.”
― Piercing
― Piercing
“He was part of this river of cars, aiding its sluggish tide and in turn aided by it. Without losing his identity, free to turn out of the tide when he chose, he still belonged to something.”
― The Grifters
― The Grifters
“I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”
― And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
― And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies
Carmine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Carmine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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237 books
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26 friends
41 books
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29 friends
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