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“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.”
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“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
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“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...”
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
“I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.”
― Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.”
― Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Susan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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101 friends
1,805 books
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184 friends
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79 friends
1,919 books
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131 friends
419 books
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78 friends
1,414 books
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53 friends
197 books
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51 friends
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