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Kathryn said:
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I’ve read this series but so long ago, not marked on GR. So therefore should be “new” to me. And I love the narrator’s voicing of Mary Balogh novels. I enjoyed it all and look forward to listening to rereading the rest of the series.
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Kathryn said:
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Thoroughly enjoyed this addition to the Survivors' Club series. I liked the characters and the plot set up. The gradual healing of Ralph who held so much pain and guilt. Chloe gentle, loving and holding pain of her own. I loved their gradual falling
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“He had altered his method of matching books to readers. He often asked, "How would you like to feel when you go to sleep?" Most of his customers wanted to feel light and safe.
He asked others to tell him about their favorite things. Cooks loved their knives. Estate agents loved the jangle made by a bunch of keys. Dentists loved the flicker of fear in their patients' eyes; Perdu had guessed as much.
Most often he asked, "How should the book taste? Of ice cream? Spicy, meaty? Or like a chilled rose?" Food and books were closely related. He discovered this in Sanary, and it earned him the nickname "the book epicure.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
He asked others to tell him about their favorite things. Cooks loved their knives. Estate agents loved the jangle made by a bunch of keys. Dentists loved the flicker of fear in their patients' eyes; Perdu had guessed as much.
Most often he asked, "How should the book taste? Of ice cream? Spicy, meaty? Or like a chilled rose?" Food and books were closely related. He discovered this in Sanary, and it earned him the nickname "the book epicure.”
― The Little Paris Bookshop
“A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader”
― I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
― I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
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― Me Before You
― Me Before You
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