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This felt like the perfect Christmastime book for 2020: the grief and trauma of war are not sugarcoated, but the storyline is anchored in hope and courage which are so necessary during hard times. Christmas comes several times during the course of th
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""The Lost Cause was so captivating, so enticing, so face-saving, in short, so convenient. The lies were easier to swallow than the facts."" — Nov 07, 2025 07:23AM
""The Lost Cause was so captivating, so enticing, so face-saving, in short, so convenient. The lies were easier to swallow than the facts."" — Nov 07, 2025 07:23AM
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― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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― A Wrinkle in Time
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“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find ourselves transcending customs, strictures, time, mores, to arrive at a place that educates, amuses, and enthralls us? It is a miracle. We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
― How Reading Changed My Life
― How Reading Changed My Life
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