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So You Want to Talk About Race

by Ijeoma Oluo

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A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII.

by Sarah Helm

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Martha’s Quotes

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: civilization, libraries

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“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”
I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. “Gets away from what, though?”
“From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like ‘happy’ and ‘good’ will never find her.”
“You don’t want her to be happy and good?”
“I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, White Is for Witching

tags: fairy-tales, freedom

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“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: learning, reading

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“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: libraries

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“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books, love, reading

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What are you reading? Open to all libraryfolk and library fans. Associated with the Library Society of the World, an ad hoc, anarchic, awesome and ope ...more

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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26901 members — last activity Apr 03, 2026 03:01AM
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more