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“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn’t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library’s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light…”
― Swamplandia!
― Swamplandia!
“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
― The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember?”
― The Arctic Incident
― The Arctic Incident
“If chocolate were a mandatory part of breakfast, people wouldn’t be so
grouchy in the morning.”
― Strawberry Shortcake Murder
grouchy in the morning.”
― Strawberry Shortcake Murder
“And then, as if thrown by a giant paintbrush, there appeared a huge, trembling, pear-shaped blob of the purest indigo. Luminous, numinous, it filled me with rapture: It was the color of heaven, the color, I thought, which Giotto had spent a lifetime trying to get but never achieved—never achieved, perhaps, because the color of heaven is not to be seen on earth.”
― Hallucinations
― Hallucinations
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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
620 books
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468 books
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18 books
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575 friends
948 books
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129 books
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447 books
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