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Ottessa Moshfegh
“Did she honestly think she had the power to atone for someone else's sins, that she could exact justice with her wit, her superior thinking? People born of privilege are sometimes thus confused.”
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Barbara Pym
“A few green leaves can make such a difference.”
Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

Barbara Pym
“There was something obscurely humiliating about going into town on the bus, Emma felt, beginning with her not knowing what the fare was and having to fumble for the right coins when she entered.”
Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves
tags: bus

Barbara Pym
“Presumably older women shouldn't drink, she thought, or women of a certain age. But what might that age be?”
Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

Barbara Pym
“The clergy nowadays seldom included the weather in their prayers....”
Barbara Pym, A Few Green Leaves

600 Gothic Literature — 102 members — last activity Dec 15, 2025 07:53AM
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
116665 Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014 — 93 members — 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
2083 NYRB Classics — 1421 members — last activity Dec 14, 2025 07:20PM
For friends of NYRB Classics
58827 Brain Pain — 1248 members — 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
170208 2016: A Dance to the Music of Time — 96 members — 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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