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He read the name on the bottle—Tom Gordon.
Isn't there a SK book called the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon? I guess it's not exactly an uncommon name, though.
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― Conversations with William Styron
― Conversations with William Styron
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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NaNoWriMo 2022
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This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more
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