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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
― Romeo and Juliet
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.”
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“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”
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Roxana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Roxana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
143 books
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146 friends
442 books
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220 books
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367 books
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185 books
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482 books
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52 books
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135 books
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Favorite Genres
Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Self help, Spirituality, and Young-adult
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