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“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”
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“The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”
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“And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun. ”
― Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
― Housekeeping vs. the Dirt
“I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.”
― The Polysyllabic Spree
― The Polysyllabic Spree
“Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.”
― The Polysyllabic Spree
― The Polysyllabic Spree
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,283 books
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4,242 friends
1,066 books
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43 friends
1,293 books
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753 friends
1,511 books
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186 friends
463 books
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176 friends
448 books
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125 friends
4,851 books
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742 friends
337 books
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45 friends
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