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"This book is a little too on the nose. I'll finish it, no doubt, but as Parry's most recent: a disappointment." — Oct 06, 2026 03:41PM
"This book is a little too on the nose. I'll finish it, no doubt, but as Parry's most recent: a disappointment." — Oct 06, 2026 03:41PM
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"I suppose getting nearly 3.5 hours into a book before getting insufferably impatient with it is not too bad." — Aug 29, 2026 01:55PM
Children muttering over their schoolbooks today think little of grammar. Grammar is tedious, difficult, slow; grammar is a shackle placed on language, correcting who into whom, can I into may I. Grammar and grammarians are constables,
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“Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
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― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
― Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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