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Allison
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"There is something very unsettling about this book" — Mar 21, 2016 12:47AM
"There is something very unsettling about this book" — Mar 21, 2016 12:47AM
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"First few pages: dismal thought experiment and matching tone :/" — May 21, 2017 04:00AM
"First few pages: dismal thought experiment and matching tone :/" — May 21, 2017 04:00AM
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"So bizarre in how it's both wise and juvenile. I feel like I'm nodding in total agreement of what young Noah says most of the time about the world, and then I'm totally confused/alarmed/repulsed when he acts out against Jude. Then again, it is a book centred around sibling rivalry ... Particularly of the twin sort ..." — Mar 30, 2017 06:12AM
"So bizarre in how it's both wise and juvenile. I feel like I'm nodding in total agreement of what young Noah says most of the time about the world, and then I'm totally confused/alarmed/repulsed when he acts out against Jude. Then again, it is a book centred around sibling rivalry ... Particularly of the twin sort ..." — Mar 30, 2017 06:12AM
“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
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“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?”
― The Calder Game
― The Calder Game
“The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Allison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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