Desirée

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Desirée’s Quotes

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran

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“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

tags: body-soul, misattributed-to-c-s-lewis

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“Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

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“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

tags: misattributed-to-c-s-lewis, reading

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I Like Big Books! — 52 members — last activity Sep 09, 2015 03:03PM
A group to help people read large books together or independently. Large books are books that are over 500 pages that sometimes seem daunting when a r ...more

A Brief Reading — 58 members — last activity Apr 03, 2016 02:02AM
A booktube buddy reading group dedicated to reading short story collections. We'll start this group by reading one common collection a month and seein ...more

International Reads — 586 members — last activity Aug 31, 2019 08:44PM
This book club's focus is on reading as diversely as possible. We hope to read books we may not otherwise have read or even heard of! This book club ...more

The Under-Hyped Readathon! — 561 members — last activity Sep 06, 2016 07:12PM
Basically, there has been a lot of talk on Booktube, and the internet in general, about the shifting community and the difference between hyping books ...more

BooktubeSFF Awards — 1683 members — last activity Jun 01, 2021 12:01PM
A group for discussing the BooktubeSFF Awards and associated readalongs. To learn more about the awards have a look at the website: http://booktubesff ...more

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