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A Grave Mistake (Roderick Alleyn #30)

by Ngaio Marsh

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Mar 04, 2026 06:18PM

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Emma

by Jane Austen

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in January 2026

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Rissi said: " Third reading 2017. Found many humorous bits and a biting passage about the behavior of Frank Churchill that might have been similar to something Austen herself had experienced.

Second reading 2009. Still has lots to say about how people find, or don ...more "

Jan 31, 2026 05:43PM · see review

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New York: The Novel

by Edward Rutherfurd (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, historical-fiction, paperback, currently-reading

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progress: On page 180. — Jan 20, 2026 06:49PM

Jan 20, 2026 06:49PM

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Rissi’s Quotes

“Madness is the acme of intelligence.”
― Naguib Mahfouz

tags: genius, intelligence, madness, mahfouz, naguib

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“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.”
― Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

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“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.”
― Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat

tags: books, humour, literature, reading, vocabulary

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