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The Renovation
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"Attempting to read the Booker longlist before the winner is announced this year. Book 3/13" 5 hours, 23 min ago

 
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"One terrible story. Some men should never write women. I looked up the author and unsurprised to see he hasn’t published anything else.
Overall this has been an excellent collection however."
Jul 08, 2026 10:38PM

 
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
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“At the heel end of the day, I need my glass of wine. Christmas lights for the brain.”
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
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“And I hope each morning you wake like a bird in a nest and fly without a thought.”
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

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