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Avery is Currently Reading

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by Roberto Bolaño

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Jun 01, 2026 05:30AM

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

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"People who aggressively hate classics and people who take classics too seriously are different sides of the same coin. TCoMC is old and long but it just the heart of a children’s story. It’s fun and unserious but still well written and intentional." — 20 hours, 34 min ago

Jun 01, 2026 05:29AM

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The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu

bookshelves: classics, japan, ghosts-of-the-ancient-world, currently-reading

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Avery’s Quotes

“Yes, you're changing. But the best parts of you are still here.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

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“I have named you queen. There are taller ones than you, taller. There are purer ones than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love Poems

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“The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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“Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?”
― Joan Didion

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“Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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