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Palace of Stone (Princess Academy, #2)

by Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)

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Feb 28, 2013 12:11PM

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My Name Is Memory

by Ann Brashares

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Julie said: " I really wanted to love this book. It just didn't do it for me. I rarely put a book down and not go back to finish it. It was just moving way too slow and was not organized well. I din't like going back and forth between current day with Lucy and the ...more "

Feb 28, 2013 12:10PM · see review

Julie’s Quotes

“Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: complexities, individuality, insight, issues, learning, life, morality, novels, reading, self-righteousness, sensitivity, society

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“A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the characters and become involved in their destiny, you won't be able to empathize, and empathy is at the heart of the novel. This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”
― Azar Nafisi

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“A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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This group is dedicated to building a up a list of clean romance books. Not "Christian" or "Inspirational" (there are other groups for those), but goo ...more

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Anyone who has read or is currently reading one of the books from the series can join! Or if you are just curious about the series you can come explor ...more

Happily Ever After Book Club — 1217 members — last activity Jun 25, 2026 01:11AM
This is a book club for readers who love a little *clean* romance. We wanted to recognize authors who make the effort to write clean novels and show o ...more

Colleen Houck Book Club — 2125 members — last activity Dec 09, 2021 09:06AM
This is the reading club hosted by Colleen Houck, the author of the NYT bestselling series TIGER'S CURSE & the NYT bestselling novel REAWAKENED. Once ...more