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The Blind Assassin
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by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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The Bachelors by Adalbert Stifter
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Jane Fairfax by Joan Aiken
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Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
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Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Coal Run by Tawni O'Dell
Coal Run
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John Green
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
John Green, Looking for Alaska

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like “be realistic”
Dylan Moran

Zoë Heller
“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself how lucky you are not to be one of those spindly Sudanese children with flies beading their mouths. You make out To Do lists - reorganise linen cupboard, learn two sonnets. You dole out little treats to yourself - slices of ice-cream cake, concerts at Wigmore Hall. And then, every once in a while, you wake up and gaze out of the window at another bloody daybreak, and think, I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.

People like Sheba think that they know what it's like to be lonely. They cast their minds back to the time they broke up with a boyfriend in 1975 and endured a whole month before meeting someone new. Or the week they spent in a Bavarian steel town when they were fifteen years old, visiting their greasy-haired German pen pal and discovering that her hand-writing was the best thing about her. But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the laundrette. Or to sit in a darkened flat on Halloween night, because you can't bear to expose your bleak evening to a crowd of jeering trick-or-treaters. Or to have the librarian smile pityingly and say, ‘Goodness, you're a quick reader!’ when you bring back seven books, read from cover to cover, a week after taking them out. They don't know what it is to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor's hand on your shoulder sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin. I have sat on park benches and trains and schoolroom chairs, feeling the great store of unused, objectless love sitting in my belly like a stone until I was sure I would cry out and fall, flailing, to the ground. About all of this, Sheba and her like have no clue.”
Zoë Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

Virginia Woolf
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.”
Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Vladimir Nabokov
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

A hole in the clouds (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Oct 02, 2010 03:28am
Description: Can a mother ever overcome her child's death?
The Red Goddess (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jun 26, 2010 06:51am
Description: Frienship is a very heavy price to pay for success.
Unfortunate Survivor (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jun 26, 2010 06:40am
Description: Survival isnt always the best that could happen to you.
Two red roses (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jun 26, 2010 06:36am
Description: A young girl is attacked in case of a mistaken identity which changes her life.
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2013 Reading Challenge
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Shaz S has read 21 books toward her goal of 36 books.
 
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2011 Reading Challenge
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Shaz S has completed her goal of reading 36 books for the 2011 Reading Challenge!
 
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2012 Reading Challenge
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Shaz S has completed her goal of reading 25 books for the 2012 Reading Challenge!
 
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