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Carly Thompson said:
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I enjoyed this novel about the end of the Victorian age, the brief Edwardian age and the horrors of WWI. The story centers around Olive Wellwood (a children's novelist), her children and their friends and relatives. This was a very dense, complex nov
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“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.”
― Life: An Exploded Diagram
― Life: An Exploded Diagram
“Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
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Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
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Palatine Library District
— 11 members
— last activity Apr 17, 2020 05:08PM
This is the online book club for Palatine Library! All are welcome to participate. Our current Virtual Big Read is about Hedy Lamar The Only Woman ...more
Forever Young Adult BookClub Chicago!
— 85 members
— last activity Oct 07, 2021 06:13AM
A Forever Young Adult (FYA) chapter book club located in Chicago. We meet once a month to discuss the book of the month as well as other YA/books we a ...more
The Rooster!
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— last activity Feb 26, 2019 11:53PM
Tournament of books commentariat, all year long!
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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