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Piret
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Books collected over many years become part of the family. They have been loved, read and re-read, and have often travelled around the world.
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“Taking books away from a culture is to take away its shared memory. It’s like taking away the ability to remember your dreams. Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“On a library bookshelf, thought progresses in a way that is logical but also dumbfounding, mysterious, irresistible.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. All the wonders and failures, all the champions and villains, all the legends and ideas and revelations of a culture last forever in its books.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“Destroying a library is a kind of terrorism. People think of libraries as the safest and most open places in society. Setting them on fire is like announcing that nothing, and nowhere, is safe.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
“Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
Piret’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Piret’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
243 books
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127 friends
593 books
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294 books
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2,951 books
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1,129 books
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140 friends
96 books
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30 friends
292 books
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97 friends
359 books
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101 friends
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