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Sean is Currently Reading

Sean Blevins is currently reading

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

bookshelves: 20th-century-novels, fantasy, favorites, currently-reading

Reading for the 5th time

read in December 1997

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Nov 02, 2025 02:30PM

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The Drifter (Peter Ash, #1)

by Nick Petrie (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 20, 2026 05:11AM

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Hadji Murad

by Leo Tolstoy

bookshelves: great-books, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in June 2016

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Sean Blevins said: " Tolstoy's final work. A study in contrasts between the pure and the decadent; an homage to the struggle to maintain one's honor in a corrupt world.

As he does in Anna Karenina , Tolstoy illustrates via contrast. He presents the Chechen mountaineers a ...more "

Jun 13, 2016 01:24PM · see review

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Sean’s Quotes

“At ten, I couldn’t articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well.”
― Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

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“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: libraries

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“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

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“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books, love, reading

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“Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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