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Buddenbrooks: The...

Laura Laura said: "From BBC Radio 4:
A 19th-century German merchant family fight to keep their supremacy.




According to Judith Adams, this book was banned and burned by Hitler and it was published when the author was 25, in 1901.

A movie Buddenbrooks (2008) and a TV series...more
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
" This is a book that can and should be read by everyone, at least all with the slightest interest in world history. I feel this so adamantly since what it tells us does away with serious misconceptions about the Mongol Empire. It explains in a clea... " Read more of this review »
Laura is 33% done with Buddenbrooks: Part V, chapter 1.
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
"The books I haven't read yet, only as suggestions of course:

My Brother Michael

Wildfire at Midnight
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Bil Keane
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
Bil Keane

Oscar Wilde
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

Albert Camus
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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2013 Reading Challenge
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2011 Reading Challenge
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2012 Reading Challenge
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