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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

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

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“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things.”
― Virginia Woolf

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“Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.”
― Virginia Woolf

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Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26880 members — last activity Feb 11, 2026 10:02PM
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