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07/03
SirRoger
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The Winner Stands Alone: A Novel (Hardcover) by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads author) bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Adolescent (Paperback) by Fyodor Dostoevsky bookshelves: currently-reading, library, russian |
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Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News (Paperback) by Stephen E. Robinson bookshelves: currently-reading, religion |
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The Night Listener (Hardcover) by Armistead Maupin bookshelves: 2009, library |
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The Golem (Dedalus European Classics) by Gustav Meyrink bookshelves: to-read |
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I Capture the Castle (Paperback) by Dodie Smith bookshelves: to-read |
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Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street, #3) by Alexander McCall Smith bookshelves: 2009, anglophilia |
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"The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home." — E. L. Konigsburg | |||
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SirRoger
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Evan's
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"As a thriller, this books fails to achieve Cricthon's usual intensity. The plot is an obvious vehicle for the rhetoric, and full of predictable thriller-writer strategies. The premise--climate scientists with guns--never ceases to feel absurd. The...more " | |||
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SirRoger made a comment on SirRoger's review of
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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"Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered."
— Lloyd Alexander (The Book of Three)
— Lloyd Alexander (The Book of Three)
" "Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?"
"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.""
— Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron)
"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.""
— Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron)
"Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are."
— Lloyd Alexander (The Castle of Llyr)
— Lloyd Alexander (The Castle of Llyr)
"When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true."
— Paulo Coelho
— Paulo Coelho
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