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“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Taking the law into your own hands, fuck what's wrong with that?”
― Rape: A Love Story
― Rape: A Love Story
“If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.”
― First Love: A Gothic Tale
― First Love: A Gothic Tale
“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Eliot did to the word love what the Russians did to the word democracy. If Eliot is going to love everybody, no matter what they are, no matter what they do, then those of us who love particular people for particular reasons had better find ourselves a new word." He looked at an oil painting of his deceased wife. "For instance- I loved her more than I love our garbage collector, which makes me guilty of the most unspeakable of modern crimes: Dis-crim-i-nay-tion.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Joyce Carol Oates
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— last activity May 04, 2026 11:12AM
This is a group for anyone who would like to read and discuss any of Joyce Carol Oates' many wonderful short stories, novels and plays. ...more
Last Book Club on the Left
— 75 members
— last activity Jan 22, 2019 05:51AM
The unofficial book club for fans of Last Podcast on the Left.
Reading the Classics
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— last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more
The Novella Club
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A book group devoted to reading and discussing novellas (one a month). Definition of NOVELLA 1) a story with a compact and pointed plot 2) a work of ...more
Charleston Book Lovers
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— last activity Sep 18, 2026 04:45PM
A dynamic group of book lovers in Charleston, S.C., who meet once a month to discuss a book they have chosen.
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