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Colleen said:
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Strouse uses Sargent's Wertheimers portraits as a jump off point to discuss different aspects of Edwardian England, Europe, and United States. Nominally a family biography, Strouse also considers other prominant Jewish families like the Rothschild an
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Colleen’s 2025 Year in Books
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