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Revolutionary Road / The Easter Parade / Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

by Richard Yates

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Collected Stories

by Thomas Mann

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The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

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He said that there are four types of readers. There is the reading sponge, the reading funnel, the reading colander and the reading sieve. The sponge absorbs everything it comes into contact with; and it is evident he remembers much of it ...more

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

by Hilary Mantel

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Less

by Andrew Sean Greer

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Clare’s Quotes

“Before traveling east, start advancing your body clock as many days before your trip as the number of time zones you’ll be crossing. Get into sunlight early in the day, or use a sunlight lamp. Once you’re on the plane eastbound, wear eyeshades to cover your eyes two hours or so before sunset in your destination city, to acclimate yourself to the new “dark” time.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well

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“A game to write a persuasive opening sentence for a book they have never read (this is difficult, as these diligent students have read everything) leads to a chilling start to Woolf’s The Waves: I was too far out in the ocean to hear the lifeguard shouting, “Shark! Shark!”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before Less understood “Accentuate the Positive” was not in the Book of Common Prayer—Less is technically Christian. There is really no other word for someone who celebrates Christmas and Easter, even if only as craft projects.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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“One person after another came up and said his mother was at peace. His mother’s friends: each with her own peculiar spiked or curled white hairdo, like a dahlia show.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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“Zhenevyeva, we often make fun of intellectuals for their doubts, their split personalities, their Hamlet-like indecisiveness. When I was young I despised that side of myself. Now, though, I’ve changed my mind: humanity owes many great books and great discoveries to people who were indecisive and full of doubts; they have achieved at least as much as the simpletons who never hesitate. And when it comes to the crunch, they too are prepared to go to the stake; they stand just as firm under fire as the people who are always strong-willed and resolute.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): As heard on BBC Radio 4

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