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Mria Quijada
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“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― City of the Beasts
― City of the Beasts
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
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“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand it, but over time I came to realize it was perfect. Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.”
― The Library Book
― The Library Book
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Mria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, and disturbing
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