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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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Andrea’s Notes & Highlights

The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli

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this is the sort of poverty I mean. This is the grinding curse that keeps down noble aspiration under a load of ignoble care; this is the moral cancer that eats into the heart of an otherwise well-intentioned human creature and makes him ...more

The last part took me by surprise. What a turn of phrase. I am falling in love with the writing style of this book.

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Andrea’s Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

tags: dreamers, dreaming, dreams, open-eyes, open-mind

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“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

tags: misattributed-einstein

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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Reading the Chunksters — 400 members — last activity Jul 06, 2024 09:13AM
This is a group for anyone who wants to read the Chunksters (the BIG books like Anna Karenina, War & Peace, Les Miserables, Don Quixote, Infinite Jest ...more

The Book Vipers — 1555 members — last activity Jun 02, 2022 02:33AM
A friendly, informal and established group with a diverse range of members. We read the classics, contemporary fiction and non-fiction. Come and join ...more

SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — 42747 members — last activity 22 minutes ago
Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more

The Readers Review: Literature from 1714 to 1910 — 3792 members — last activity 4 hours, 1 min ago
This is a group for discerning readers looking to discover, explore, and critically discuss some of the World’s literature, with a primary emphasis on ...more

Classics and the Western Canon — 4960 members — last activity 17 hours, 31 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more

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