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“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”
― English Music
― English Music
“The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.”
― Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
― Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
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“Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song.
O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.”
― How Green Was My Valley
O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.”
― How Green Was My Valley
Saskia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Saskia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
679 books
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139 friends
1,545 books
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43 friends
1,768 books
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10 friends
43 books
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71 friends
4,424 books
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191 friends
5,707 books
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864 friends
517 books
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214 friends
2,282 books
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48 friends
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