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Gabriella
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Reading for the 2nd time
read in September 2025
Gabriella said:
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Instantly an all-time favorite! The type of book that is so good that you can't tell your friends about it because you are going to force them to read it and watch them experience all the emotions you did reading it. I feel like I just experience the
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“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready.”
― Anonymously Yours
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready.”
― Anonymously Yours
“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
― Wild Geese
― Wild Geese
“Live to the point of tears.”
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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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Gabriella’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gabriella’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,544 books
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7,742 friends
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545 books
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68 friends
2,720 books
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1,300 friends
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4,999 friends
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75 friends
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Chick-lit, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Young-adult
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