Melanie (Perpetually Reading)

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Melanie’s magical-realism shelf

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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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

“...the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.”
― Charles D'Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum

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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

154 likes

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: inspirational-life

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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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“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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