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“I know many people survive, but I also think people glorify resilience a little too much, forgetting that the fragile ones simply die as the world walks on over their bones.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

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“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

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“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

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“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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Track your progress on the annual Goodreads Reading Challenge and encourage each other to meet reading goals. **Get started here** **Join our monthly ...more

All About Books — 3825 members — last activity 12 minutes ago
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Victorians! — 3765 members — last activity 1 hour, 24 min ago
Some of the best books in the world were written and published in Great Britain between 1837 and 1901. What's not to love? Dickens, the Brontes, Co ...more

#ClassicsCommunity 2021 Reading Challenge — 2712 members — last activity Aug 20, 2025 03:13PM
In 2021, I'm hosting a year-long readathon where I - and hopefully you! - will be reading as many classics as possible. The #ClassicsCommunity is an ...more

Once Upon a River Readalong #OnceUponaReadalong — 221 members — last activity Jan 11, 2022 10:04PM
This February (2021) I'll be hosting a readalong of Diane Setterfield's Once Upon a River, an amazing novel by my favourite modern author, Diane Sette ...more

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