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“It’s different. You can meet a Mexican or Asian who’ll speak English and know all of our pop culture, but still have their hands in their roots. Us, we’ve been here for centuries, and little by little our touch with Africa has been lost. ...more
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Kristin Hannah
“Leni had never known anyone who had died before. She had seen death on television and read about it in her beloved books, but now she saw the truth of it. In literature, death was many things - a message, catharsis, retribution. There were deaths that came from a beating heart that stopped and deaths of another kind, a choice made, like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. Death made you cry, filled you with sadness, but in the best of her books, there was peace, too, satisfaction, a sense of the story ending as it should.

In real life, she saw, it wasn't like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.”
Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

Fredrik Backman
“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”
Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

Fredrik Backman
“Never go to a game of anything and shout, “You’re playing like a woman!” at an athlete, as though that word were the definition of weakness. One day, you’ll be holding a woman’s hand as she gives birth and then that’ll make you feel more ashamed than you’ve ever felt about anything. Words matter. Be better.”
Fredrik Backman, Things My Son Needs to Know about the World

Abbi Waxman
“Being with you is as good as being alone.”
Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Fredrik Backman
“I wish you courage
I wish you rushing blood
A heart that beats too hard
Feelings that make everything too hard
Love that gets out of control
The most intense adventures
I hope you find your way out
I hope you’re the kind of person
Who gets a happy ending”
Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

950862 FSW Book Club — 7 members — last activity Mar 26, 2022 09:31AM
A place for members of the FSW Book Club to connect and share recommendations.
1049439 Have You Read This? — 4 members — last activity Dec 29, 2019 07:26PM
This is a group discussion area for fans of HYRT Podcast to discuss the current reads of the pod!
232809 Writerly Reads — 102 members — last activity Apr 22, 2018 09:14AM
A book club for authors, aspiring authors, editors, and aspiring editors. This book club is all about helping one another hone our craft as storytelle ...more
1000257 Writers Unite! — 206 members — last activity Apr 04, 2026 12:01PM
Are you writing a novel? Poetry collection? Blog? Short stories? Script for a play? Here is a club for you to join to get feedback, bounce ideas off e ...more
1174317 ⋆.ೃ࿔࿐ྂfaith & fantasy⋆.ೃ࿔࿐ྂ — 2666 members — last activity 6 hours, 3 min ago
“We read to know that we are not alone.” ―C.S. Lewis This is a group for fantasy lovers who are also followers of Jesus! ⋆.ೃ࿔࿐ྂ April MOTM: Sophie ...more
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