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Rose is Currently Reading

Rose is currently reading

The Southern Bookclub’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

by Grady Hendrix (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, horror, vampire, currently-reading

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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, historical-fiction, currently-reading, pauze

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Alkibiades

by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, greek-mythology, historical-fiction, nederlands, pauze, currently-reading

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Rose’s Quotes

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

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“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

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“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

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“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”
― Bohumil Hrabal

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Reading the Classics — 4042 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

Fantastic Strangelings Book Club — 441 members — last activity Mar 28, 2026 08:00PM
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Dark Academia Book Club — 923 members — last activity Jul 30, 2023 02:20PM
All welcome! A bookclub for those of us who spend too much time on dark academia aesthetic, but also, enjoy reading and knowledge.

Boekenroedel — 343 members — last activity May 14, 2026 03:01AM
Welkom in onze gezellige community waarin je kan meelezen wanneer je maar wil. We staan open voor alle soorten boeken en meningen! IG: Boekenroedel W ...more

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