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“Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an education…”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

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“Lily was a Fabian, a society suffragette who risked nothing for her beliefs.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

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“Pamela, even at a distance, was the voice of her conscience, but then it was very easy to have a conscience from a distance.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

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“In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

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“From the open French windows Sylvie watched Maurice erecting a makeshift tennis net, which mostly seemed to involve whacking everything in sight with a mallet. Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

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UK Book Club — 6999 members — last activity 3 hours, 45 min ago
This is a book group for Goodreads users in the UK, but members from other countries are welcome too so long as all posts are made in English. Please ...more

#TheReadingQuest — 351 members — last activity Sep 06, 2020 05:01AM
The Reading Quest will be held from August 13th to September 10th. It's a video based reading challenge where you choose your own path to conquering y ...more

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon — 4457 members — last activity Aug 27, 2026 03:33PM
Our next readathon will be October 17-18, 2026. We'll start reading at 8am Eastern Time on Saturday October 17th, and end Sunday October 18th at 8am E ...more

The Study of the Mind: A Psychological Book Club — 2135 members — last activity Sep 12, 2023 04:49AM
This is a book club for those who love to read books about Psychology! Each month we will pick a book dealing with psychological topics, read it, and ...more

Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy — 8958 members — last activity 1 hour, 48 min ago
A place for those who walk the green forests of Middle Earth, cross the pale sands of Arrakis, sail the blue waters of Earthsea, slip among the shadow ...more

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