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Alia Makki has completed the 2018 Reading Challenge
Alia Makki has
completed her goal of reading 100 books for the 2018 Reading Challenge!
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| Deliciously enlightening where writing is concerned, scathingly self-righteous where fellow writers are discussed. | |
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How to have AWESOME erotic pleasure: 1. Take care of yourself. Sleep well, eat well, exercise well. 2. Be a genuinely nice person to yourself and others. It doesn't matter if you can discharge 1000000 megawatts of sex energy from your mudra if you're ...more |
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| The main difference between authentic self-help books and patchworked once is in the authors. Authors who don’t practice what they preach speak empty words. They leave no marks on their audience’s memories. The example of books written by false teach ...more | |
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| When a jaded writer takes on huge ideas, the first thing they do unto those ideas is to distill them down to its atomic elements: boy meets girl, girl loses boy, girl…is a powerful demon princess who watches the centuries pass-by without a hinge or a ...more | |
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On one side, there's a market for this kind of romance. Dark billionaire, BDSM scenes, ambitious heroine who is not a pushover. On the other, this same market has a strict word count limit, a tight deadline cycle, and low cost production room. That i ...more |
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Salah satu bukti kecakapan menulis adalah kesan ringan yang dirasakan sepanjang bacaan. Kesan bahwa karya ini dapat dimengerti dan dihayati di saat kita paling membutuhkan fiksi: sebagai alat hiburan. Semakin ringan diksi dan bahasa yang dipakai, sem ...more |
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| I’m listening to this in my dad’s rural village. I’m listening to this because everything about this book, these series, the voice that’s reading the audiobook, are safe. All safe. Safe as cribs. Safe as faithful expectancy. Safe as Stephen Fry’s emb ...more | |
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Even with that articulate language, I was blinded by the WHITENESS of this middle-aged, Christian, suburban version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat, Pray, Love”. The whining, hyperbolic navel glaring. Oh. God. There are real problems out there in the worl ...more |
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“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― The Kindly Ones
― The Kindly Ones
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
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“There is nowhere morning does not go.”
― Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
― Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
“That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
Alia’s 2018 Year in Books
Take a look at Alia’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
664 books
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2,156 friends
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