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recognize as the rejuvenating power of real estate. It’s what fortunate couples turn to when their sex life has faded and they’re too pious for affairs. A second car might bring people together for a week or two, but a second home can
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“The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
― Slade House
― Slade House
“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Bird Box
― Bird Box
“Everything he has learned tells him to leave; Everything he has wished for tells him to stay.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
Women and Men
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Women and Men began as a reading group for Joseph McElroy's masterpiece. It has developed into All Things McElroy. We have chapter threads for discuss ...more
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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— last activity Aug 04, 2023 01:15AM
This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
East of Eden Readalong
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— last activity Jul 04, 2018 08:03AM
"The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up th ...more
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