Melissa
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“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
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Jane Austen July 2025
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Jane Austen July is a month-long readathon, all about reading Jane Austen and related works. ---The Challenges--- 1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six ...more
Dracula Read Along 2022
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We will be reading Braum Stoker's Dracula starting on Oct. 16th and finishing on Oct. 31st. *Introduction gives away plot-beware* Oct. 16 -Chapters ...more
Prosecco & Prose
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— last activity Jul 21, 2023 05:15AM
Three generations of ladies reading a variety of books.
Frenchman's Creek - Feb. 2023
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A romance story for the month of February. Frenchman's Creek is a 1941 historical novel by Daphne du Maurier. Set in Cornwall during the reign of Char ...more
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