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In progress....started Apr 1, 2025, last updated Sep 7, 2025Reading this excellent anthology with The Short Story Club, one story per week. Lots of lively discussions there! Come join us at https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/.... Currently we have ...more "
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Yvettte and Rose 2025/09/30I'm so glad to be back to reading this collection! Yvette and Rose are young adult sisters living with their single mother. The story begins with preparing for a hurricane, an almost mundane thing for which they've been thr ...more "
“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
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“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
The Short Story Club
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We read and discuss one short story a week. Authors are welcome, but it's not a group to promote one's own work. The first post of each week's discus ...more
The Poetry Collective
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Welcome! Here poetry readers unite to share and discuss a single poem a week. ( Note: currently we are not discussing original poetry promoted by t ...more
What next, now notifications are reduced, DMs abolished, so GR is dying?
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On 20 Sept 2024, GR removed the option for email notifications, without telling users (unless they looked at the "help" page). In-app/web notification ...more
Augustus -buddy read
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The Middle of the Journey, August 2025
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Lionel Trilling's novel The Middle of the Journey. Of ideologies, Trilling wrote, "Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the rit ...more
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