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“I passed a little further on and heard a peacock say: Who made the grass and made the worms and made my feathers gay, He is a monstrous peacock, and He waveth all the night His languid tail above us, lit with myriad spots of light.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“Confidence is like anything else. The more you do it, the more you believe it.”
― In Falling Snow
― In Falling Snow
“Books you've read are like old friends. You look up and you see a title that you've read and had pleasure from and it makes you feel very comfortable.
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect”
― At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
~Robert A.M. Stern, Architect”
― At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
“Life reaches a point where you no longer wish to dig about in the earth of the past to find what might have made you grow the way you have. Or how you might have been different.”
― In Falling Snow
― In Falling Snow
Retro Reads
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A buddy reading group for those interested in twentieth century books and authors. From 2023 our time period will be 1900-1980. Authors like M.M. Kaye ...more
Barbara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Barbara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Children's, Classics, Crime, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, and Poetry
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