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Caren

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Caren’s Bookshelves

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currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (520)

adult-nonfiction‎ (281)
children‎ (126)
ya‎ (67)

adult-fiction‎ (60)
first-reads‎ (5)
giveaways‎ (1)

poetry‎ (1)

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Caren’s Quotes

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children

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“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

2027 likes

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18124 likes

“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

1178 likes

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

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Carnegie book wards 2013 — 12 members — last activity Jun 23, 2013 04:07AM
Are you shadowing the Carnegie book awards? If you are share your thoughts here please.

Q&A with Alexander McCall Smith — 476 members — last activity May 05, 2015 07:39PM
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Ask Mary Roach - Wednesday, April 10th! — 494 members — last activity Sep 19, 2022 12:25PM
Join us on Wednesday, April 10th for a special discussion with author Mary Roach! Mary will be discussing her work, including her most recent book Gul ...more

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