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Melanie (Perpetually Reading)

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Melanie’s magical-realism shelf

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia

Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

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

“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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“...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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“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 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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