“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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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.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
TW Book Club
— 161 members
— last activity Jul 13, 2026 10:00AM
It's YEAR EIGHT of the TW Book Club! Join us, invite your friends! January: This House of Sky by Ivan Doig February: The Storyteller: Tales of Life a ...more
Gosforth Library Reading Group
— 11 members
— last activity Jul 09, 2026 02:02PM
Meets face to face at Gosforth Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, on the first Tuesday of each month from 16.45 to 17.45.
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