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Once Upon a River

by Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)

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— Jan 10, 2026 05:41AM

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Powsels and Thrums: A Tapestry of a Creative Life

by Alan Garner

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Dec 29, 2024 12:16AM

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Acts and Omissions

by Catherine Fox (Goodreads Author)

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— Nov 29, 2024 02:07PM

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Nick’s Notes & Highlights

Becoming Ted by Matt Cain

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Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’, then the Weather Girls’ ‘It’s Raining Men’,

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Nick’s Quotes

“huge silent glory of light burned on every twig and withered leaf”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

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“always to hope the best; and to be confident that my friends love me.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“the ouzo having oiled away their inhibitions.”
― Benjamin Myers, These Darkening Days

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“My most dear, we have fought many fights together, and this is the last of them and it must be the best. If it is given to men to remember in the life we go to, remember that I loved you, and do not forget that you loved me.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset

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“It was a small bothy, one step brought us to meet in the midst of it; my arms were around him, and his around me, the strong right arm and the maimed left that felt sapless and brittle as a bit of dead stick, and we held fast together, and wept somewhat, each into the hollow of the other’s shoulder. Maybe it is easier to weep when one grows old, than it was in the flower of life.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset

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