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The present thunders on while the past is a wound untended, unstitched, felt but never healed.
“Fiction is the great lie that tells the truth about how the world lives!”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Walter Benjamin’s famous vision of history as a vast heap of wreckage of incidents and events that keeps piling higher and higher into infinity, with progress signifying merely more wreckage waiting to happen.”
― Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
― Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
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Marian’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Marian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
807 books
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7 friends
1,291 books
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238 friends
216 books
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38 friends
289 books
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72 friends
480 books
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15 friends
613 books
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10 friends
60 books
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5 friends
18 books
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9 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Psychology, and Science
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