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“Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.”
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“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance”
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“Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.”
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“I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll.”
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“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
129 books
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31 friends
795 books
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217 friends
754 books
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61 friends
130 books
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305 friends
235 books
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50 friends
312 books
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48 friends
957 books
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259 friends
15 books
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19 friends
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