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“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“I tell you, my dear, Narcissus was no egoist… he was merely another of us who, in our unshatterable isolation, recognized, on seeing his reflection, the one beautiful comrade, the only inseparable love… poor Narcissus, possibly the only human who was ever honest on this point.”
― Other Voices, Other Rooms
― Other Voices, Other Rooms
“The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.”
― Conversations with Ernest Gaines
― Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”
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“My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category: ordeal travel. At every turn I faced challenges, difficulties and threats when in the Congo. The challenge was to assess and choose the option best suited to making progress. But there were moments when there were no alternatives, or shortcuts or clever ideas. At these times, ordeal travel became really no ordeal at all.”
― Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
― Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
Lashell’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lashell’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
162 books
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47 friends
13 books
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31 friends
6 books
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32 friends
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