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Days at the Torunka Café (Days at the Torunka Café, #1)

by Satoshi Yagisawa

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Himawari House

by Harmony Becker

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"THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!" — Jul 03, 2022 12:17PM

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The Place Between

by Kit Oliver (Goodreads Author)

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claire said: " Absolutely lovely and I'm ready to read it again!
This is some High Academic Drama™ (which I can see being really boring to other people but alas I'm a victim of graduate school). The reason for their fake dating was patently absurd. Their department ...more "

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"Actually pretty great I wiLL say. Love how much screentime the dog is getting. As he deserves." — Jan 25, 2023 09:00PM

Feb 10, 2023 11:07AM · see review

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claire’s Notes & Highlights

Honeybee by Trista Mateer

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I’m sorry for trying to love you before I knew what I was doing.

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claire’s Quotes

“Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
― Shannon Hale

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“I have a beard of fog that I wear on misty mornings. It’s not cigarette smoke, but I’d understand if you wanted to shave it off and inhale it.”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

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“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

tags: love, love-songs, morning, paris, quote, roman-payne, romance, rooftop-soliloquy, rooftops, twilight

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“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
― Brian Jacques, Taggerung

tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water

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“What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

tags: books, library, readers

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