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“Every love story was - at the last - a story of death; this was what the poets insisted. Why should it be any less true the other way about?”
― Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six
― Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six
“He kissed her as he worked, and swallowed the pestilence with her spittle; his hands came off her body gritty with her contagious cells. He knew none of this, of course. He was perfectly innocent of what corruption he embraced, and took into himself with every uninspired thrust.”
― Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six
― Books of Blood, Volumes Four to Six
“Yes, so she knows her failings. Heather was a librarian,' he added, as if this might explain the failings.”
― A Few Green Leaves
― A Few Green Leaves
“The clergy nowadays seldom included the weather in their prayers....”
― A Few Green Leaves
― A Few Green Leaves
“Presumably older women shouldn't drink, she thought, or women of a certain age. But what might that age be?”
― A Few Green Leaves
― A Few Green Leaves
Gothic Literature
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— last activity Feb 23, 2026 03:00AM
Discussing the darker aspects of 18th - 21st century literature. If you cannot find a topic you are interested in feel free to create a new thread for ...more
Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014
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— last activity Mar 09, 2019 04:37PM
A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
Brain Pain
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— last activity Oct 10, 2023 09:29AM
NOTE: This group is intermittently active, but you are welcome to revive past discussions if you're currently reading any of those books. We read ch ...more
2016: A Dance to the Music of Time
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— last activity Nov 14, 2019 07:37PM
2016 reading group for the 12 book series by Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time. One book per month.
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