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Cecily’s to-read shelf

The Lunatic Express by Charles Miller Beowulf by Unknown His Last Letter by Jeane Westin The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly Seventh Heaven by Meg Cabot Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange
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Cecily’s Quotes

Joseph Brodsky
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky
tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading
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Terry Pratchett
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett
tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories
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William Shakespeare
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
tags: wisdom
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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Ray Bradbury
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction
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Adult Fiction, Book Club, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Horror, Mystery, Science fiction, Suspense, and Thriller


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