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Each book in the library contained a world of personalities and stories and history. We shared an insatiable curiosity. The deeper we each read, the more we would understand about this world we live in, and the more questions we had.
“Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.”
― Microserfs
― Microserfs
“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair.”
― Songs of Distant Earth
― Songs of Distant Earth
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Candide
― Candide
“Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.”
― Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You
― Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Berkeley College Online Book Club
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Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
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Our next readathon will be April 18-19, 2026. We'll start reading at 8am Eastern Time April 18th, and end at 8am April 19th.. ...more
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