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D’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (181)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1327)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
feminism-and-woman-centric‎ (186)
penguin-modern-classics‎ (171)
by-nobel-laureates‎ (105)

sci-fi-and-dystopia‎ (72)
victorian-classics‎ (70)
drama‎ (60)
books-for-children‎ (57)
war-literature‎ (57)
non-fiction‎ (56)
modernist-and-postmodernist‎ (55)

southern-literature‎ (35)
russian-classics‎ (33)
pulitzer-winners‎ (32)
japanese-literature‎ (30)
to-read-in-2018‎ (22)
ancient-and-medieval-works‎ (21)
next-15-or-so‎ (20)

latin-american-literature‎ (19)
nyrb-classics‎ (17)
30-to-50-of-sorts‎ (14)
booker-winners‎ (14)
top-10-ever‎ (9)
modern-thrillers‎ (5)

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D’s Quotes

“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
― Vera Brittain

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“For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books

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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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“Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.”
― Tom Hiddleston

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“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot