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“...the cooing of pigeons, nesting in the wall outside; shimmering and unexpected like a first hyacinth gently tearing open its nutritious heart to release its flower of sound, mauve and satin-soft, letting into my still dark and shuttered bedroom as through an opened window the warmth, the brightness, the fatigue of a first fine day.”
― The Guermantes Way
― The Guermantes Way
“Few are the foreheads which like Shakespeare's or Melancthon's rise so high, and descend so low, that the eyes themselves seem clear, eternal, tideless mountain lakes; and all above them in the forehead's wrinkles, you seem to track the antlered thoughts descending there to drink, as the Highland hunters track the snow prints of the deer.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Cannon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cannon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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130 friends
504 books
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222 friends
556 books
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648 friends
1,141 books
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121 friends
2,169 books
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202 friends
1,019 books
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34 friends
5,296 books
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289 friends
10,647 books
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297 friends
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