Melanie (Perpetually Reading)

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Melanie’s magical-realism shelf

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Echoes from the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South

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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 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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“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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“...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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“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: love

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