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Grittney is Currently Reading

Grittney is currently reading

The Correspondent

by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: audiobook, fiction, literary, currently-reading

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Apr 02, 2026 02:50PM

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The Names

by Florence Knapp

bookshelves: fiction, literary, currently-reading

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Apr 01, 2026 04:01AM

Grittney’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain

5 notes & 7 highlights

Albert had been given a blunt message about what his friends thought of people like him, what the world at large thought of people like him—of the real him, the him he’d been careful to keep well hidden.

Not true friends then .

The Stand-In

by Lily Chu

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Way Down Deep

by Charlotte Stein

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Grittney’s Quotes

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

tags: book, hunger, weapon

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“Yet as much as I loved him, I loved myself more. And as I was discovering, there was no end to love-it was something which grew and renewed endlessly, expanding to encompass each new horizon. Family. Friends. And other lovers, too-none of them the same- yet each precious in their own way.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

tags: love, love-quotes

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“The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

tags: haunting, silence

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