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Solo Joy
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“I am lost on a sea of hunger, blue and black and heaving and full five fathoms deep below and rarely, rarely do I feel anything besides hungry, rarely, rarely does a jolt of feeling or emotion pierce the hide of my hunger, and never, never have I been able to live the life God presumably gave me to live, to dance and think and remember and kiss, no, all my life I have stood at the threshold of my life waiting to be let in”
― The Glutton
― The Glutton
“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“Drinks were a lot like books, really: it didn’t matter where you were, the contents of a vodka tonic were always more or less the same, and you could count on them to take you away to somewhere better or at least make your present arrangements seem more manageable.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
GDL - Bookaioli
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Bibliomaniacs (MY)
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— last activity Dec 23, 2016 11:16PM
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” Welcome fellow bibliomaniacs! This book is aim ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Reading Groups and Book Challenges for Turtles
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I really like reading books in the company of other readers, I have participated in many reading groups and many challenges in the past, but now I rea ...more
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