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You sit at a bar and you’re gifted with that feeling of utopia peculiar to places frequented by wanderers. Hotels are like train travel, like early-morning pillow talk with a stranger. They allow you to occupy a space that’s caught in
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“Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
To look ahead,' said he.
And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
Looking behind,' said he.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom …”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
“You do not yield.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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353 books
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71 friends
538 books
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3,152 friends
459 books
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253 books
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36 friends
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