“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
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“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
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“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
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Ioana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ioana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Romance, Science, and Travel
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