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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (155)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (2276)
children‎ (586)
good-summer-read‎ (387)
1920s-1930s‎ (376)
for-the-easily-entertained‎ (344)
stonking-great-disappointment‎ (311)
not-up-to-standard‎ (261)
whodunit-howdunit-whydunit‎ (239)
totally-forgettable‎ (217)
mental-popcorn‎ (213)

rather-heavy-going‎ (184)
run-save-yourselves‎ (171)
couldn-t-put-it-down‎ (160)
memoirs‎ (159)
life-affirming-cosy‎ (151)
life-s-too-short‎ (133)
don-t-bother‎ (128)
mostly-harmless‎ (120)
don-t-know-where-to-shelve-this‎ (115)
light-as-air‎ (93)
social-realism‎ (92)
fantasy‎ (89)

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roman-policier‎ (83)
japanese-authors‎ (81)
thinking-people-s-books‎ (80)
d-is-for-dysfunctional‎ (72)
nmsot‎ (66)
ripped-off-original-source‎ (62)
artwork‎ (61)
absolute-favourites‎ (51)
i-was-there-books‎ (51)
internet-archive‎ (49)
short-stories‎ (49)

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heavy-as-lead‎ (43)
non-fiction‎ (40)
showbiz‎ (40)
cookery‎ (39)
christian‎ (30)
noir-fiction‎ (27)
bad-audiobook-narrator‎ (24)
china-is-not-japan‎ (24)
austenite‎ (23)
sip-don-t-gulp‎ (22)
accursed-books‎ (19)

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Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Quotes

“If you find it difficult, it's because it contains something that is new to you. Every difficult book offers us a brand-new challenge.”
― Sōsuke Natsukawa, The Cat Who Saved Books

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“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

tags: compassion, friends, self-care

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“Reality, it must sadly be said, has a way of complicating things, even things we might believe could never be that complicated.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

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“I am a genius of infinite potential and highly limited patience. People shouldn’t try me so.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

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“Don't let your mouth start nothing your ass can't stand.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

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