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Lori is Currently Reading

Lori Summers is currently reading

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

by Marie Bostwick (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, book-club, feminism, fiction, historical-fiction

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Lori’s Quotes

“America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

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“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

tags: first-sentence

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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: dream, first-sentence

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“One must know how to doubt.”
― Alexandre Lacassagne, Précis de médecine judiciaire

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“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

tags: books

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