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Speranza is 36% done with The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
Jan 02, 2026 02:05AM Add a comment
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)

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Speranza is 33% done with Lucio's Confession
I'm so proud of not being happy. Literature has a lot to answer for.
Feb 13, 2025 08:16AM Add a comment
Lucio's Confession

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Speranza is 27% done with Lucio's Confession
Do you know, I cannot imagine myself growing old, just as I cannot imagine myself ill or dying. Nor even killing myself, as I've tried at times to fool myself I would. And so great is my confidence in this superstition that, were I not absolutely sure that we all must die, I swear I would not believe in my own death, because I cannot see myself dead.
Feb 06, 2025 02:26AM Add a comment
Lucio's Confession

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Speranza is on page 40 of 306 of Small Rain
That was another thing that had changed over the past decade, the quality of mindlessness, which now was populated by the endless feeds of social media, which didn't eradicate boredom but changed the texture of it, made it less restorative, less accommodating of creative possibility, I feared.
Nov 05, 2024 03:53AM Add a comment
Small Rain

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Speranza is 26% done with The Well of Loneliness
With a sudden illumination of vision, she perceived that all life is only one life, that all joy and all sorrow are indeed only one, that all death is only one dying.
Aug 23, 2024 08:32PM Add a comment
The Well of Loneliness

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Speranza is 2% done with The St Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires
This was how a bookstore was supposed to sound, how it was supposed to smell - musty, dusty, isolated from the cares and troubles of the outside world.
Jan 22, 2024 11:14AM Add a comment
The St Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires

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Speranza is 5% done with EMANCIPATED
I don't like to be forgotten by any one who ever cared for me.
Aug 04, 2023 07:28PM Add a comment
EMANCIPATED

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Speranza is 69% done with Eugenie Grandet
In all situations women have more cause for suffering than men, and they suffer more. Man has strength and the power of exercising it; he acts, moves, thinks, occupies himself; he looks ahead, and sees consolation in the future...But the woman stays at home; she is always face to face with the grief from which nothing distracts her; she goes down to the depths of the abyss which yawns before her...
Aug 03, 2023 09:06AM Add a comment
Eugenie Grandet

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Speranza is 48% done with The Makioka Sisters
Everything seems sad this autumn. I wonder if it is a sign if age - I have always liked the spring, and this is the first time I have understood the autumn.
Jul 04, 2023 03:07AM Add a comment
The Makioka Sisters

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I am so chuffed and proud, and I am not even his biggest fan.
May 23, 2023 11:38PM Add a comment

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Speranza is on page 37 of 410 of Spare
Who knew Harry was a Tolstoy in the making.
Jan 12, 2023 06:24AM Add a comment
Spare

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Speranza is 8% done with The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
My solitude grew more and more obese, just like a pig.
Nov 01, 2022 09:20AM Add a comment
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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Speranza is 88% done with Time Shelter
If I don't clearly remember who exactly I am, I could be anyone, even myself, even myself as a child.
Sep 07, 2022 08:48PM Add a comment
Time Shelter

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Speranza is 80% done with Time Shelter
A person is not built to live in the prison of one body and one time.
Sep 07, 2022 08:46PM Add a comment
Time Shelter

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Speranza is 47% done with Time Shelter
Can a person be gathered up like that, piece by piece, though through the memories of others, and what would you get in the end? Would some Frankensteinian monster emerge from all that? Something patched together from absolutely incompatible memories and ideas from so many people?
Sep 07, 2022 08:45PM Add a comment
Time Shelter

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