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Now that you’re an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you’re
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“For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
― I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― All's Well That Ends Well
Lauren’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lauren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,059 books
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444 friends
275 books
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43 friends
423 books
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21 friends
861 books
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92 friends
550 books
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74 friends
1,120 books
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16 friends
86 books
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93 friends
121 books
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49 friends
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