Mel Aras
https://www.goodreads.com/melisanaras
“We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
― Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
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Mel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, spanish-literature, latin-american-literature, 17th-century, 16th-century, english-literature, european-literature, irish-literature, stuart, and tudor-period
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