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"That night, as the brilliant traces of celebration trailed down the sky, Anatoly saw his own choices clearly for the first time: his need to live without the fear of someone coming to pound on his door in the hushed hours before dawn; his desire to prote
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«Avant de repartir, je regardai longuement la scène que je laissais derrière moi: l’autobus offert à la rouille, carcasse posée au milieu de la plaine et qui s’y détruirait lentement au long des siècles, les tombes en cercle, ornées par les masques et les
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"Are there many things in this cool-hearted world so utterly exquisite as the pure love of one woman for another?" (Mary McLane) "Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way." (Pablo N
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**Unfortunately this book has not yet been translated into English.** « Quand l’arbre généalogique a été arraché, la naissance d’un enfant revêt une importance particulière : le nouveau-né devient une preuve de survie. Il ne pourra se contenter d’exister
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“When I was a student, I visited the site of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Walking between the piles of combs, shoes, hair and other reminders of those who had been brutally killed,’ I asked the guide if he found it difficult coming face to face
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This Booker Prize Longlisted book is a love letter to Earth, our home. I hope it makes the shortlist, not just for its literary merit and penetratingly beautiful language, but because it is an elegy to all that we are lucky to see and experience as earthl
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"Walking in the woods yesterday after a rain, I found myself before the silver stump of a fallen birch, whose smooth skin and two tapering roots looked so much like the torso of a statue that it took my breath away. Suddenly I understood what it must have
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“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be not
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Pictured above: Land shark guarding book about sharks. #thoseteeththough #whatdoidonow 📖 📖 📖 📖 📖 📖 📖 #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readabook #bookrecommendations #
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Finally finished one of the longest novels I've ever read. It was an excellent story, beautifully written, and very moving in places, but I still hadn't expected to find myself sobbing through the last two pages of the book 😭♥️ Alexand
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When you're over half-way through a 1600-page book and just reached a particularly gripping section, but someone has other ideas about how you should be spending your time. 🐾 📖 🐾 📖 🐾 📖 🐾 :
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You know how there are some classics that you've heard references to your whole life, but somehow you’ve never got round to reading them? The Count of Monte Cristo is one of those books for me. After seeing the latest in a long list of gushing reviews, I
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Recent reads… 📚 ALL PASSION SPENT by Vita Sackville-West This was my second Sackville-West novel, and it did not disappoint (I read The Heir last year, and thoroughly enjoyed it.) Her writing is superb - beautifully descriptive and, imo, profoundly
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Book delivery 🙌 Thank you @blackwellbooks ! I will be starting with The Wren, the Wren. Have you read it? Special thanks to @rochelles_reading_journal for recommending a place to start with Alice Munro. 😊 📚 📚 📚 :
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“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended." “We go on our hands and knees, and crawl our way to
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"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect othe
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A heartbreaking story of a young woman trapped by her lack of education, by her sex, by her class and, generally, by the expectations that forced nineteenth century women into roles and living arrangements not of their choosing. Beautifully written. Many
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Introducing Irish speed noodle Lupin to the pleasures of great American literature. 😄📚 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 #whatimreadingnow #dogsandbooks #booksanddogs #johnsteinbeck #a
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Time for some nonfiction. 😀✈️🎴🗾🍙🍥🍱🍜 [From the back cover] When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan, he wondered if he’d made a huge mistake. With n
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“We live so many lives within our lives - smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up - and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame. But whenever I’m in the grips of a fever or infatuatio
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"My shoulders rose and dipped with the long, rolling swells of my breathing as I opened myself to the stillness, to the silence of the long, long years, until it filled me completely." Cannot say enough good things about this novel. I may be biased, beca
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James is a retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of enslaved man Jim. I devoured this book. Percival Everett is SUCH a skilled writer. I was transported and completely absorbed in the story from the first p
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✨Book Review✨ Timothy Garton Ash - Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. "It was that year of wonders, 1989. Freedom and Europe – the two political causes closest to my heart – were marching forward arm in arm, to the music of Beetho
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️"Let us have the luxury of silence."️ (Jane Austen, Mansfield Park) 📚 ️ 🌸 📚 ️ 🌸 📚 ️ 🌸 #classicliterature #janeausten #englishliterature #booksanddogs #dogsandbooks #flowersandbooks
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Book Review **SPOILERS** This one was a bit of a disappointment, to be honest. I had been looking forward to reading it for several months.Don’t get me wrong - it was a good read, but the parts that affected me were their war experiences and the horror an
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Another book delivery. Looking forward to getting stuck into these works this spring. Thank you, @blackwellbooks 😀📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 📚 #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readaboo
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Finally introducing Lupin to the classics 😏😋📖 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 🐾 📚 #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readabook #bookrecommendations #greatreads #fortheloveofreadi
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“His head stung and felt perforated. As he lowered into sleep the salty pined breeze and cricket songs and schools of stars poured into and birled around his brains so the night became his mind and his mind the night and the mother owl watching over him s
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"And as if from nowhere I realised, suddenly, with appreciation, that absolutely everything around me was alive. There was no gap separating my body from the living world. I was pressed against a teeming immensity, every cubic millimetre of water densely
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I'm so grateful to be living in the 21st century... ⚓️ 🌊 ⚓️ 🌊 ⚓️ 🌊 ⚓️ #reading #booknerd #booksofinstagram #bookclub #readingtime #readabook #bookrecommendations #greatreads #fortheloveofreading #book
