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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
We're in a small town in the South with the deaf-mute outsider John Singer. We follow the people around him who are all drawn to him: a lonely and kind-hearted cafe owner, a musical youn ...more "


“I would read. I would explore”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“No writer should be the same as another, that’s not art.”
― Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
― Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“People like pretty things. When you’re pretty, everybody wants to look at you, they want to touch you. I wanted that for myself. Prettiness means value. But some people never experience that personally.”
― Breasts and Eggs
― Breasts and Eggs

“Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.”
― Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
― Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

A great group of people who love to read and discuss all kinds of books and other stuff too! If your profile is set to private you won't be considere ...more

This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more

A group for people who enjoy literature written by Japanese authors.
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