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Alyssa Hubbard

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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“There is nothing like the smell of books, both new and old. If someone ever bottled the smell, I would be all over it .”
― Tiffany King, Meant to Be

tags: bibliophile, book-lovers

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“I grabbed my book and opened it up.

I wanted to smell it.

Heck, I wanted to kiss it.

Yes, kiss it.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

tags: bibliophile, books

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“Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.”
― Arnold Bennett

tags: book-lovers, snobbery

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“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or be read to.”
― Eudora Welty

tags: american-writers, book-lovers, reading-habits, short-stories

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Horror Aficionados — 30242 members — last activity 2 hours, 53 min ago
If you love horror literature, movies, and culture, you're in the right place. Whether it's vampires, werewolves, zombies, serial killers, plagues, or ...more

Underground Knowledge — A discussion group — 25319 members — last activity 48 minutes ago
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring ...more

The History Book Club — 26116 members — last activity May 03, 2026 03:34PM
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more

Books of Horror — 443 members — last activity Jan 06, 2025 08:41AM
A GR group so all of us in the Facebook group Books of Horror can gather and follow each other here as well.

Night Worms Book Club — 497 members — last activity Oct 10, 2021 09:03AM
If you are a Night Worms subscriber or just want awesome book recs, this is the place for you! We will share the books included in our monthly package ...more

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