“What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.”
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“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
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[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]”
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“This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
― The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
Britta’s 2025 Year in Books
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Chick-lit, Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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