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Jared | beardedreading’s favorite books

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

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Jared | beardedreading’s Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased

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“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

tags: ghosts, spells

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“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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Jared | beardedreading’s Groups

Haruki Murakami Book Group — 5922 members — last activity Jul 05, 2026 06:50AM
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

Banned Books — 5213 members — last activity Jun 30, 2026 01:50PM
To celebrate our love of reading books that people see fit to ban throughout the world. We abhor censorship and promote freedom of speech.

Nerdist Book Club — 746 members — last activity Nov 30, 2022 05:23PM
Welcome to our official GoodReads club! Hosted by Nerdist’s Rachel Heine, Geek & Sundry’s Hector Navarro, and Geekbomb’s Maude Garrett, Nerdist Book ...more

Burbank Book Club — 158 members — last activity Jan 04, 2022 11:58AM
A 100% online book club formed by the Burbank Public Library in order to bring us together in a time of social distancing. We meet the third Saturda ...more