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Angela is Currently Reading

Angela is currently reading

Her Say: Survivors of Domestic Abuse Tell Their Own Stories

by Jackie Clark

bookshelves: currently-reading, trigger-warning-abuse-violence, new-zealand-or-new-zealand-author, feminist-or-womens-issues, first-published-2020s

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The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, horror, fantasy, first-published-2000s

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Angela’s Quotes

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: silence

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“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up — 1565 members — last activity Dec 05, 2025 11:10AM
This is a group for those who want to take on the less-daunting task of reading all of the books from Julia Eccleshare's 1001 Children's Books You Mus ...more

Comfort Reads — 1389 members — last activity Apr 23, 2025 01:19PM
When life gets busy and you need a break from serious reading what do you reach for? A comfort read means something different to everyone so join us, ...more