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Laura
is currently reading:
by Phillip Rock
bookshelves:
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historical-fiction,
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american-fiction,
between-wars
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This is how I imagined it all started. He was a journalist. Words being his profession, he read a lot of books. Readers like his (or us) at one point in their lives wonder if they can write well enough and lengthy enough to have a book published c...
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It was called as the Great War. It was great in all aspects of war, including in its stupidity. You know how it started. A minor potentate was assassinated and with this single death nations found reason enough to stage an orgy of bloodbaths acros...
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I yield. As much as I enjoyed the first two books in this trilogy, I have lost interest and can't pick the book up again. I'll wait for the reviews to come on the new edition and may change my mind.
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"thanks Orsolya.
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Tara Chevrestt
is on page 100 of 405 of It Happened at the Fair: I'm finding this very enjoyable. The fair is fascinating and the lip-reading tie in just awesome. The characters are all likable too, a major plus.
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Laura
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"Ohhh I do love her books.
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Laura
is on page 281 of 448 of Circles of Time: This book is even bette than the first one.
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“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
― Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde
― Oscar Wilde
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― François Mauriac
― François Mauriac
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
― Jorge Luis Borges
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Couldn't find them in pink unfortunately!
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