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Melai is Currently Reading

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I've Got Your Number

by Sophie Kinsella

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"Quite fun. Haven't read any chic lit for long." — Sep 03, 2016 01:36AM

Jan 17, 2019 06:48PM

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The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

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"There are tiresome moments. It feels like LOTR all over again. With long paragraphs spent in describing a place or a scene. While it is nice to waddle in the flood of words, it feels like a chore especially when you're already physically exhausted." — Dec 11, 2013 01:44PM

Dec 07, 2013 08:06PM

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The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

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"will get back to reading this when I'm not needing fiction. It felt so non-fiction to me since Chapter 1..." — Dec 07, 2013 09:34PM

May 13, 2014 04:32PM

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Melai’s Quotes

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

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“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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