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“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
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“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
― The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
“I cannot live without books.”
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“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
Laura ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Laura ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
5,741 books
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1,263 friends
1,738 books
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33 friends
1,316 books
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185 friends
814 books
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285 friends
800 books
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20 friends
1,461 books
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105 friends
822 books
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3 friends
518 books
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31 friends
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Favorite Genres
Children's, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, and Spirituality
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