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“A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future.”
― Parade
― Parade
“Two people who want the same thing will never generate the same intensity as two people who want different things, or one person who wants into an absence, a void--...”
― Audition
― Audition
“For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The struggle, which is sometimes a direct combat, between the search for completeness and the desire to create art therefore becomes a core part of the artist’s development.”
― Parade
― Parade
The Mookse and the Gripes
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Forum for spirited and convivial discussion of fiction from around the world, with particular though not exclusive focus on 20th and 21st century fict ...more
Tournament of Books
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— last activity Apr 25, 2026 05:37PM
This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more
The Read Around The World Book Club
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— last activity Oct 10, 2021 05:22PM
I have created this book club to read books from all over the world, but only from female authors. We will pick a book from a country a month a head ...more
Bookstagram
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For People with Book Accounts on Instagram to connect and discuss books, books pictures and bookish stuff! Started by yours truly at http://www.insta ...more
Reading German Books in 2020
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In 2020, Melanie and Britta decided to challenge themselves to read more books in their native German language and created the Read More German Books ...more
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