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“Though Jonah felt transfixed inside his own childhood, no one else saw him as a child. He was already over the hump of middle age, heading rapidly toward those year that no one like to speak of. The best parts had already passed for people Jonah's age. By now you were meant to have become what you would finally be, and to gracefully and unobtrusively stay in that state for the rest of your life.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“Part of the beauty of love was that you didn’t need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn’t necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“...he’s infuriated that his e-reader allows him to only know the percentage of a book he’s read, not the number of pages. This, he thinks, is 92 percent stupid.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
“The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the walls—even if you'd once been best friends—was now just that, outsiders.”
― The Interestings
― The Interestings
Rena’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Rena’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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96 friends
129 books
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523 books
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960 books
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252 books
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196 books
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410 books
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249 friends
158 books
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260 friends
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