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“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren?
Do I care?
Doesn't everybody?
Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!”
― Bluebeard
Do I care?
Doesn't everybody?
Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!”
― Bluebeard
“I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
Fernweh Frazon's Travel Reading Challenge
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A yearly reading challenge of travel-related books for reading while on vacation, or while wishing you were.
Hard backs, facts, and Light snacks
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— last activity Mar 11, 2016 08:24PM
A monthly non-fiction book club based in New York City. Books will be voted on from those submitted by members for 3 months in advance, to give membe ...more
A Rainbow in Winter: A Gravity's Rainbow Reading Challenge
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— last activity Mar 19, 2019 10:36PM
Back in 1973, The New York Times titled its review of Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon as follows: One of the Longest, Most Difficult, Most Ambitio ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
A Season for Woolfs: A Virginia Woolf Reading Challenge
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— last activity Jan 28, 2020 04:39PM
We are back with the next installment of the Difficult Reads Book Club (DRBC), this season featuring Virginia Woolf's St. Ives' Trilogy (Jacob's Room, ...more
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