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The Namesake
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Ashima thinks it’s strange that her child will be born in a place most people enter either to suffer or to die.
“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Many of these trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where there were singing groves.”
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“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.”
― Borne
― Borne
Literary Treks: A Star Trek Books and Comics Group
— 467 members
— last activity Aug 29, 2025 12:40PM
This is a Star Trek books and comics group that is linked with the Trek.fm podcast by the same name. Here is a place to talk about all the books and c ...more
Academic Reading Challenge
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— last activity Jan 04, 2024 04:51AM
This is a challenge for academics who feel that their reading has become over-specialized and possibly joyless, who want to read more literature for p ...more
SFF180 presents Space Opera September: Season 2: 2021
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Space opera is loosely defined as stories that are set predominately (if not entirely) in outer space, in which spaceflight is a key narrative element ...more
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