Steve Middendorf
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"It was getting late, time for me to put away the book for the night. I just couldn’t do it. Luckily the author gave me a spot with 10% to go where the heroines were safe both now and then. I could sleep." — Feb 20, 2026 03:11PM
"It was getting late, time for me to put away the book for the night. I just couldn’t do it. Luckily the author gave me a spot with 10% to go where the heroines were safe both now and then. I could sleep." — Feb 20, 2026 03:11PM
“Here was the authentic voice of the Slav. These people hold that the way to make life better is to add good things to it, whereas in the West we hold that the way to make life better is to take bad things away from it.”
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
― Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
“kidnappers generally roamed the coast, and in the rainy, grey dusk they would stun a freed man in the street and drag him half-conscious onto a ship bound for the Southern states, to make of him a slave again. This was not the only hazard, though it was the worst of them. White men were everywhere aggrieved, and they would sometimes rise up against us black devils, the miserable black scourge who would destroy their livelihood by labouring at cheaper rates.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
“he is one of those good teachers who “are capable of retracing in detail, and holding accurately in their minds the origins, progress, mode of development, in short, the history of their own notions and thoughts, their knowledge and their intellect” (Z 1376).”
― Zibaldone
― Zibaldone
“Who has the rights to the story of a place? Are these rights earned, bought, fought and died for? Or are they given? Are they automatic, like an assumption? Self-renewing? Are these rights a token of citizenship belonging to those who stay in the place or to those who leave and come back to it? Does the act of leaving relinquish one’s rights to the story of a place? Who stays gone? Who can afford to return?”
― The Yellow House
― The Yellow House
“Times of trouble demand not tears but counsel.]”
― Zibaldone
― Zibaldone
Middle East/North African Lit
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— last activity May 25, 2026 01:40PM
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Odysseus to Ulysses
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— last activity Jun 22, 2024 05:04PM
This group will be reading first Homer's The Odyssey, for which we plan to take around two months, and then James Joyce's Ulysses, which may take abou ...more
The Thomas Mann Group
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— last activity Jan 17, 2026 05:34AM
Members of Kindred Spirits and other interested GR members read the works of Thomas Mann. Our next scheduled read is The Magic Mountain, taking plac ...more
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