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"slow going as it's too simple to be the main dish. but still a bit interesting so I chip away at a chapter a day. i do feel a longing to finish so i can claim to have finished it...mainly i am intrigued by the cultural difference. She reads a lot of Western writers but she doesn't write with a style or content of someone who would normally get published in an english market & I am trying to put my finger on what..." — Mar 11, 2026 05:51PM
"slow going as it's too simple to be the main dish. but still a bit interesting so I chip away at a chapter a day. i do feel a longing to finish so i can claim to have finished it...mainly i am intrigued by the cultural difference. She reads a lot of Western writers but she doesn't write with a style or content of someone who would normally get published in an english market & I am trying to put my finger on what..." — Mar 11, 2026 05:51PM
thinking little of herself, obscurely felt she deserved it, which, in a woman, was an open invitation for more bad treatment.
“It is very normal for one ugly weed to not want to stand alone.”
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― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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― The Scent Keeper
“Vianne didn’t hesitate. She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie’s life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. She reached for the toddler, took him in her arms.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
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― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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― The Discovery of the Child: formerly entitled "The Montessori Method"
― The Discovery of the Child: formerly entitled "The Montessori Method"
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