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“But it’s there. Dread. Every day is an opportunity to fuck up. Every decision, every meeting, every report. There’s no success, only the temporary aversion of failure. Dread.”
― Assembly
― Assembly
“OH YOU LIED, YOU LYING SACK OF CLOUD SCALES!”
― That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
― That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf
“My question is whether today you are of the same view about the Wall as something humane, and the killings at the border an act of peace.’ He raises his free arm, inhales and screams, ‘More! Than! Ever!’ He brings his fist down.”
― Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
― Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
“How can a health service so stripped of spare capacity cope with the demands of a once-ina-lifetime global pandemic? I bite my lip and think longingly of Germany’s twenty-nine intensive care beds per 100,000 people – four times the number of ICU beds in Britain”
― Breathtaking
― Breathtaking
“Boris Johnson delivered an unexpectedly jaunty press conference in which he assured an anxious nation we would ‘turn the tide within the next twelve weeks’ and ‘send coronavirus packing in this country’, as though it were some unwanted door-to-door salesman.”
― Breathtaking
― Breathtaking
Augustus -buddy read
— 3 members
— last activity Apr 11, 2025 03:34PM
Buddy read of Augustus - John Williams
Beautiful People
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— last activity Oct 10, 2023 09:51AM
Let's fantasize about our youth and read contemporary novels! Make sure you add Beautiful People to your playlists first! This group was created spec ...more
Stoner - John Williams
— 2 members
— last activity Apr 10, 2025 04:32AM
Buddy read with Antoinette, Diane and Mark
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