Sharon

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Sharon is Currently Reading

Sharon is currently reading

Two-Way Murder

by E.C.R. Lorac

bookshelves: golden-age-detective-fiction, currently-reading

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Feb 02, 2026 04:29PM

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The Snow Child

by Eowyn Ivey (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: science-fiction-and-fantasy, currently-reading

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Jan 06, 2026 02:57PM

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Engine Summer

by John Crowley

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“Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

tags: comfort, darkness, despereaux

240 likes

“Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.”
― Wendell Berry, Farming: A Hand Book

tags: advice, clutter, life

712 likes

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

566 likes

“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

tags: dark, darkness, light, stories, story

519 likes

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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