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Elsa is Currently Reading

Elsa Mathews is currently reading

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

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"Seriously considering DNF’ing this book…" — Sep 08, 2026 11:45PM

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The Pilgrim's Regress

by C.S. Lewis

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Troy

by Stephen Fry

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“Pooh felt that he ought to say something helpful about it, but didn't quite know what.
So he decided to do something helpful instead.”
― Alan Alexander Milne, Winnie the Pooh (illustrated edition): Children's Classics

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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, re-reading, reading

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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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