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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.”
― His Dark Materials
― His Dark Materials
“You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.”
― The Black Prism
― The Black Prism
Addicted to YA
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put bac ...more
Around the World in 80 Books
— 30945 members
— last activity 8 hours, 0 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
The Short Story Club
— 558 members
— last activity 4 hours, 56 min ago
The purpose of this group is to read and discuss one short story a week. For the the first couple of years, we read from specific anthologies, but fro ...more
Fedor Dostoevskij's lovers
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— last activity May 04, 2021 01:52AM
A place to discuss all the works by Fëdor Dostoevskij
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