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Colleen’s favorite books

New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Unwind by Neal Shusterman Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Looking for Alaska by John Green The Princess Bride by William Goldman 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson Kindred by Octavia E. Butler The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien The Comeback Season by Jennifer E. Smith Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman
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Colleen’s Quotes

“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
― Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
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George Eliot
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
tags: music, poetry
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
tags: music, poetry, power-of-music
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Leopold Stokowski
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski
tags: music
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“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
tags: dreams, music
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Chick-lit, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, and Young-adult


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