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“Actresses. What a bunch of sad saps we are, I thought. Madly in love with the child. Madly in love with the craft. Trying desperately to forge an alliance between the two, and constantly failing. If I were a man, I said to myself, none of this would be in question.”
― Born with Teeth
― Born with Teeth
“I laughed, disarmed. "Shopping isn't really my thing. Not when there are bookstores to be plundered and tombs to be explored.”
― Born with Teeth
― Born with Teeth
“Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless.”
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“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.”
― The Hate U Give
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.”
― The Hate U Give
Moments of Reading: A Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group has been created to discuss the works of Virginia Woolf in its broadest sense. It helps new readers in finding their way in her works, it e ...more
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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— last activity Aug 04, 2023 01:15AM
This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
Jane Austen
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Established July 2007. Readers of Jane, gather here to discuss anything from Frank Churchill's secrets to Lady Catherine's whims. What finally "persua ...more
British Literature
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For all those who love anything that is either written about and/or by authors from the British Isles.
Baker Street Irregulars
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Book club devoted to the great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his dear friend and colleague Dr. John Watson. We choose, read and discuss a p ...more
Kathleen’s 2025 Year in Books
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