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To me, it was a disease of history—something that killed depressive nineteenth-century poets, not present-tense humans. But as a friend once told me, “Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
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“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“Oh my god, Ox, your life is like those shitty sparkly vampire movies. That I’ve never seen and don’t like at all, shut up.” “Oh”
― Wolfsong
― Wolfsong
“We don’t use the word crazy around here. We prefer coping mechanism.”
― Camp Hell
― Camp Hell
“Sincere Graves was unnerving. Theatrical Graves was familiar. Lindsey relaxed. “Thank you.”
― Mr Warren's Profession
― Mr Warren's Profession
“But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Lesley’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lesley’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
513 books
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92 friends
259 books
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109 friends
14,064 books
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617 friends
4,984 books
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47 friends
6,818 books
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152 friends
2,905 books
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33 friends
1,698 books
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143 friends
1,247 books
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22 friends
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