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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

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Enter Ghost

by Isabella Hammad (Goodreads Author)

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May 29, 2026 05:35AM

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The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

by Steffen Mau

bookshelves: currently-reading, 21st-c, thesis, non-fiction, in-translation

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“He was not prepared for this new sky overhead, which was dimly lit most of the time, only occasionally flickering into life like a buzzing bulb with low voltage.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

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“It'll all come right. Because, of course, I do believe...I believe - I believe in everything...sun, moon, stars, in seasons - trees, flowers - people, music, life...yes, in life.”
― Rosamond Lehmann

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“The latter's boast that he had never read a book for pleasure in his life did not predispose me in his favour.”
― Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing

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“I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

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“On the night bus, I felt as though parts of other people were going into parts of me I didn’t even know existed. I felt like I was being more intimate with members of the night-bus community than I’d ever been with anyone in my whole life.”
― Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy

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