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"It’s like reading Amos Tutuola, but as an account of a real life, mixed with a textbook on how colonialism is awful. A fascinating narrator." — Jul 16, 2024 03:51PM
"It’s like reading Amos Tutuola, but as an account of a real life, mixed with a textbook on how colonialism is awful. A fascinating narrator." — Jul 16, 2024 03:51PM
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Antastesia's bookclub!
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Welcome to 'my' little bookclub! Which I'd rather call our bookclub ! Why? Because I am very very interested in your suggestions, your opinions, your ...more
Welcome to 'my' little bookclub! Which I'd rather call our bookclub ! Why? Because I am very very interested in your suggestions, your opinions, your ...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Lexington NYRB Group
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— last activity Oct 29, 2011 08:19PM
NYRB Reading Group at the Lexington Public Library! We meet the third Wednesday of every month at the Central Library (140 E. Main St.) to discuss a ...more
NYRB Reading Group at the Lexington Public Library! We meet the third Wednesday of every month at the Central Library (140 E. Main St.) to discuss a ...more
Astanic verses
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Local Goodreads group: books discussions, book swapping, showing off, and bull sessions.
Local Goodreads group: books discussions, book swapping, showing off, and bull sessions.
Popular Anthropology
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— last activity Sep 10, 2016 07:27AM
A discussion page for sources of popular anthropology. Help us find more books, blogs, podcasts, videos - any anthropology that's written for a genera ...more
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Adult Fiction, Art, Biography, Book Club, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Poetry, Psychology, Travel, and War
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