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“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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Stirling’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stirling’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,239 books
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53 friends
928 books
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83 friends
27 books
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58 friends
835 books
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170 friends
1,145 books
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45 friends
882 books
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218 friends
914 books
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106 friends
666 books
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153 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Classics, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Science, Science fiction, and Young-adult
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