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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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…he is trying to poison me. This house is sick with rot, stinks of decay, brims with every single evil and cruel sentiment. I have tried to hold on to my wits, to keep this foulness away but I cannot and I find myself losing track of time ...more

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Briana’s Quotes

“Anyone who prefers minimalism probably had everything growing up.”
― Marlowe Granados, Happy Hour

tags: minimalist

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“One opposite of imagination is “efficiency.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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“writing novels is, to my way of thinking, basically a very uncool enterprise”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

tags: humour

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“When I was a child, luxury was fur coats, evening dresses, and villas by the sea. Later on, I thought it meant leading the life of an intellectual. Now I feel that it is also being able to live out a passion for a man or a woman.”
― Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

tags: love-passion

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“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

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Hello! This is a book club, hosted by four Asian book reviewers, dedicated to boosting marginalized voices and celebrating diverse books, while always ...more

Black Coffee — 3082 members — last activity Jul 17, 2026 02:41PM
This group focuses on books written by or about black people from all continents in many different genres though we focus on historical fiction and cl ...more

MoPOP Book Club — 34 members — last activity Sep 29, 2020 03:06PM
The Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, WA hosts a quarterly book club. We select books that connect to our collection of science fiction, fantasy, popu ...more

Early Modern History, 16th-18th Century — 49 members — last activity Jun 18, 2022 11:43AM
This is a group for all those with an interest in Early Modern history (roughly from 1500-1800, though the 15th century is also fair game). My own int ...more

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