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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

If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura

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)
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

“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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“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

151 likes

“...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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“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 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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