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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
“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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“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
“As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl of candy, and all alone in the house, the leaf shadows shifted and the afternoon passed.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,006 books
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29 friends
405 books
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46 friends
699 books
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227 friends
4,757 books
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743 friends
1,437 books
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186 friends
403 books
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166 friends
953 books
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43 friends
3,854 books
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4,253 friends
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