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I love bookstores for many reasons but revere both the idea and the practice of public libraries. To me, they embody the civic-scale practice of a gift economy and the notion of common property. Libraries are models of gift economies,
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“You never have the sort of friends you have when you’re fifteen ever again. Even if you keep them for the rest of your life, it’s never the same as it was then.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.”
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“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“In silence lies safety.”
― Codename Villanelle: short story
― Codename Villanelle: short story
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
Our Shared Shelf
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Neverending Stories
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Brain Soup Goes Gilmore
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Welcome to the forum for the Brain Soup Goes Gilmore Book Club hosted by Dayeanne Hutton and Felicity Disco. We're exploring the vast array of books r ...more
Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine
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