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Tawny
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Only a person with an unfathomably huge ego and an off-the-charts level of blind self-confidence and an insatiable hunger for control could look at America, in all of her enormity, with all of her complexity, with all of her beauty and
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“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
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“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
― The Little Minister
― The Little Minister
“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
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Tawny’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tawny’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,318 books
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8 friends
650 books
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78 friends
3,008 books
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19 friends
145 books
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654 friends
1,285 books
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22 friends
662 books
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1,142 friends
379 books
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151 friends
1,216 books
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89 friends
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