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There’s a tendency to look down on pop culture, to reduce fangirls to immature girls prone to extreme behavior, high-pitched screams, and vapidity, as if being a fangirl is something to be ashamed of.
“If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”
― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
― The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with. ”
― Hardboiled & Hard Luck
― Hardboiled & Hard Luck
“But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.”
― Serving Crazy with Curry
― Serving Crazy with Curry
“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
Read a book from each country
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I thought this would be a good place to collect recommendations for books from various countries. I don't have a formal goal to read a book from each ...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
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