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Alexandra is Currently Reading

Alexandra is currently reading

The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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read in November 2017

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"I’m up to book four which means Sam and Frodo. So I’m taking a break to decide if I read it, skim it, or skip it completely." — Oct 31, 2017 07:53PM

Nov 10, 2017 10:02PM

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“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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“Priya Gowda had never met a book she wouldn't read, and she'd met a lot of them.”
― Faith Mudge, Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories

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“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

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“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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