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Santa is Currently Reading

Santa is currently reading

Aizķeršanās galaktikas nomalē

by Etgar Keret (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, humorīgi, stāsti, israel

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Oct 21, 2026 10:27AM

Santa is currently reading

Ja reiz ziemas naktī ceļinieks

by Italo Calvino

bookshelves: currently-reading, postmodernisms, 2024

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“Writing makes you a writer,” he’d told me. “If you get up every morning and write, then you’re a writer. Publishing doesn’t make you a writer. That’s just commerce.”
― Joanna Rakoff, My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM

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“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

tags: crises

1215 likes

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

tags: books, life

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“-maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”
― Samantha Ellis , How to Be a Heroine

tags: heroines

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“bookshops are
time machines
spaceships
story-makers
secret-keepers
dragon-tamers
dream-catchers
fact-finders
& safe places.

(this book is for those who know this to be true)”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

tags: bookshops, dedications, time-machines

323 likes

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