Michelle

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Michelle’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (348)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (699)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
owned-books‎ (612)
read-hardcopy‎ (483)
read-as-an-ebook‎ (197)
non-fiction-reads‎ (186)
fantasy‎ (113)
dutch‎ (106)
young-new-adult‎ (94)
reviewed‎ (93)

library‎ (71)
read-in-2021‎ (61)
memoirs‎ (59)
read-in-2013‎ (59)
read-in-2014‎ (59)
read-in-2022‎ (59)
thriller-mystery-crime‎ (55)
uni-reading‎ (53)
read-in-2019‎ (52)
read-in-2023‎ (52)
purchased-in-2020‎ (50)
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romance‎ (33)
favourites‎ (32)
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scifi‎ (27)
read-in-2012‎ (25)
secondary-school-reading‎ (25)
dumpster-fire‎ (24)
purchased-in-2025‎ (23)

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Michelle’s Quotes

“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I owned that place”
― Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.”
― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

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“Once you’ve got women and a border, a story can write itself. Even women on their own are enough. Women are stories in themselves, full of stirrings and whisperings that float on the wind, that bend with each blade of grass.”
― Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

tags: storytelling

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“Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies – birth, love, and death – are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice!”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

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