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“Talking with friends about books harks back to the original impulse behind storytelling, the forging of human bonds. We have told ourselves stories not just, in Joan Didion's phrase, in order to live, but in order to live with one another.”
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“An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.”
― World of Wonders
― World of Wonders
“If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.”
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“I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.”
― Jazz
― Jazz
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
Lynn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lynn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller
Polls voted on by Lynn
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