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Holly is Currently Reading

Holly is currently reading

Emma

by Jane Austen

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Holly said: " Love the book. Love the movie(s). Mr. Knightley ranks as one of the top three best Austen-heroes (whose position on that list is always changing depending on which book I'm reading at the time). Emma doesn't deserve him, except that she becomes less ...more "

May 04, 2020 05:35AM · see review

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This Dark Night: Emily Bronte, A Life

by Deborah Lutz

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Jul 24, 2026 12:25PM

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The Odyssey

by Homer

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read in March 2024

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Holly said: " It felt like an odyssey just to get through it, but listening to Sir Ian McKellan narrate it made up for the length. Glad to say I have finally read the whole thing. "

Mar 04, 2024 08:25AM · see review

Holly’s Quotes

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.”
― Carter Crocker

tags: confidence

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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey

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“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)”
― Jeffrey R. Holland

tags: adversity

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