Melanie

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Melanie is Currently Reading

Melanie is currently reading

Lolly Willowes

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century-fiction, backlisted-old-books-new-life, brit-lit, women-character-focused, witchy-witches

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— Jun 24, 2026 08:25PM

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The Cornish Wedding Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #1)

by Fiona Leitch (Goodreads Author)

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The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time #8)

by Robert Jordan

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Melanie’s Notes & Highlights

It by Stephen King

4 notes & 8 highlights

The fact that he has never before in his life driven out of downtown Boston, one of the most confusing cities in America to drive in, does not seem to matter much at all.

Word.

'Salem's Lot

by Stephen King

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Melanie’s Quotes

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

tags: happy, sebastian, summer, teddy-bear

374 likes

“What fresh hell is this?”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

1036 likes

“Three Pines is a state of mind. When we choose tolerance over hate. Kindness over cruelty. Goodness over bullying. When we choose to be hopeful, not cynical. Then we live in Three Pines.”
― Louise Penny, Glass Houses

45 likes

“There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.”
― Joe Biden

tags: grief

22 likes

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8072 likes

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