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Ilse is Currently Reading

Ilse is currently reading

All About Love: New Visions

by bell hooks

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— Mar 08, 2026 11:51PM

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The Story of Art Without Men

by Katy Hessel

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Ilse’s Quotes

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: loneliness, love

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“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

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“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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Haruki Murakami Book Group — 5895 members — last activity 2 hours, 31 min ago
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

Utopian and Dystopian Reading Group — 876 members — last activity Nov 13, 2025 04:24AM
This group is for anyone interested in Utopian and Dystopian Literature to discuss anything from Thomas More's Utopia to present day fiction. Everyone ...more

BookTuber Book Club — 231 members — last activity Mar 17, 2018 08:45AM
Welcome to the BookTuber Book Club!! A place where all BookTubers unite and read a book together for a month. Please post your progress in the folder ...more

LITTLE BOOK CLUB — 6782 members — last activity Dec 09, 2021 05:14AM
AMERICAN GODS Liveshow: Date TBA Due to popular demand, I have decided to start up a book club! I'll be organising some read-a-longs each month or so ...more