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Cheryl is Currently Reading

Cheryl Andrews is currently reading

The Stone Carvers

by Jane Urquhart

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in February 2026

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Cheryl Andrews said: " Dolling out my reading in short tantalizing tastes, as you
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"One of the best books I've read in a long while, so good that I am forcing myself to slow down, savour every word and phrase." — Feb 08, 2026 07:25AM

Feb 13, 2026 04:49AM · see review

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Vintage Ondaatje

by Michael Ondaatje

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Feb 04, 2026 04:38AM

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How to Breathe Water

by Sharon Butala

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Sep 23, 2025 04:09AM

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“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

tags: insanity, loneliness, solitude

294 likes

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant

tags: memory

3377 likes

“Put black on white.”
― Maupassant(de)/Guy

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“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
― Paul Valery

tags: poem, writing

484 likes

“I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.”
― Pete Hamill

tags: inspirational, nature, pete-hamill

60 likes

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