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Izzy Verdery
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It was a trick no one expected of an American, the combination of a good ear, a good memory, and an understanding of the rules of grammar, so that I appeared more of a prodigy than I was.
“Well,' said Pippin. I have known of him all my short life, as you might say; and lately I have travelled far with him. But there is much to read in that book, and I cannot claim to have seen more than a page or two. Yet perhaps I know him as well as any but a few. Aragorn was the only one of our Com-pany, I think, who really knew him.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Try to do good for other people. Your happiness lies there.”
― Fifty Degrees Below
― Fifty Degrees Below
“Marx was a prodigious reader, and he felt like Sadie might be the kind of book that one could read many times, and always come away with something new.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.”
― 2312
― 2312
“And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
Izzy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Izzy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
109 books
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21 friends
267 books
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673 books
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1,304 books
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174 books
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616 books
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39 books
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174 books
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