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“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”
― What the Dead Know
― What the Dead Know
“She has been excessively cheery. In a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, that is always a sign of a fairly severe depression.”
― After All These Years
― After All These Years
“The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.”
― A Murder of Magpies
― A Murder of Magpies
“I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough.”
― Orphan Train
― Orphan Train
“In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that she was most likely to earn someone's cooperation. Older people were the easiest, if only because they were so often bored out of their minds that they welcomed any distraction. Men were curt, but they usually found the time, as long as she did the little-me, big-eye, big-chest thing. Women were more skeptical, because women spent their lives listening to bullshit.”
― The Sugar House
― The Sugar House
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Lita’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lita’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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1,003 books
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389 books
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262 books
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123 books
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494 books
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