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The Land in Winter
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Ray Bradbury
“Live in the library, for Christ’s sake! Don’t live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to the library!”
Ray Bradbury

John Steinbeck
“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.”
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Daniel Handler
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
Daniel Handler

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

John Steinbeck
“Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.”
John Steinbeck

186163 The Mookse and the Gripes — 2046 members — last activity 11 hours, 20 min ago
Forum for spirited and convivial discussion of fiction from around the world, with particular though not exclusive focus on 20th and 21st century fict ...more
109617 Diversity in All Forms! — 1971 members — last activity Jul 10, 2025 12:53PM
This book club will engage participants on a variety of culturally relevant topics that have included (but are not limited to): ethnicity/race, countr ...more
100590 The Thomas Mann Group — 248 members — last activity Aug 12, 2020 09:04PM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read the works of Thomas Mann. Our next scheduled read is The Magic Mountain, taking plac ...more
4810 Steinbeck fans — 295 members — last activity Jul 30, 2022 02:19AM
Anyone who appreciates good, solid Steinbeck writing is encouraged to join. I would love to meet more people who love his writing and want to talk abo ...more
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