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Lindsay is currently reading

Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author)

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Lindsay’s Quotes

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

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“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
― Alison Bechdel

tags: alison-bechdel, fun-home, grief, suicide

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“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

tags: longing, love

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“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook

tags: contradiction, longing, love, solitude

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“Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.”
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

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Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

Exceptional Books — 2587 members — last activity Jan 17, 2026 08:02AM
This book club is ONLY for books that are WRITTEN VERY WELL and have a GREAT STORY LINE. We ask that each member shelve at least 2 exceptional books ...more

24B4Monday Readathon — 601 members — last activity Jul 30, 2023 10:42AM
Hello and Welcome! This readathon takes place every last weekend of the month. It begins on that Thursday night at midnight and runs until Sunday nigh ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 222986 members — last activity 1 hour, 14 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

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