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Naima is Currently Reading

Naima is currently reading

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

by Sandra M. Gilbert

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(page 20 of 768)
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Jan 10, 2026 03:58AM

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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

bookshelves: 19th-century, british-literature, classics, favourites, gothic, literary-fiction, romance, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in November 2022

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Naima said: " Haunting, passionate, reckless. This book embodies the beautiful madness that I adore in gothic literature. "

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(page 43 of 360)
— Jan 10, 2026 11:56AM

Nov 29, 2022 10:20AM · see review

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The Second Sex

by Simone de Beauvoir

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— Jul 27, 2024 12:41PM

May 03, 2024 01:55PM

Naima’s Quotes

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: depression-silence

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“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

298 likes

“I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

826 likes

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

tags: 1931, art, mystery, philosophy, science

5286 likes