Melanie (Perpetually Reading)

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Melanie’s magical-realism shelf

Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

The Helios Disaster by Linda Boström Knausgård

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz

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Melanie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (2228)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (862)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
never-really-finished‎ (46)
books-i-own-and-have-read‎ (296)
lit-fic‎ (153)
thought-provoking‎ (135)
mystery‎ (105)

thriller‎ (92)
audiobook‎ (87)
fantasy‎ (87)
books-i-own-but-haven-t-read‎ (74)
classics‎ (68)
poetry-want-to-read‎ (66)
romance‎ (66)
library-books‎ (56)
ebook‎ (50)

short-story‎ (43)
comedy‎ (37)
magical-realism‎ (33)
sci-fi‎ (31)
historical-fiction‎ (30)
non-fiction‎ (29)
young-adult‎ (29)
never-want-to-read-these-again‎ (24)
graphic-novels‎ (23)

around-the-world-project‎ (21)
horror‎ (20)
online-short-story-tbr‎ (19)
books-i-own-and-have-read-japan‎ (12)
japanese‎ (7)
日本語の本-tbr‎ (5)
picture-book-want-to-read‎ (3)
books-i-own-but-havent-read-japan‎ (2)
poetry-read‎ (2)

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Melanie’s Quotes

“How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: love, romance

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“It's no secret, of course, that souls sometimes die within a person and are replaced by others — especially with age.”
― Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

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“The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid?”
― J. M. Coetzee

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