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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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| Shimmery language, banal subject. | |
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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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“Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.”
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“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 Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
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“Happiness is the longing for repetition.”
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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
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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.
574 books
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61 friends
3 books
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44 friends
246 books
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427 friends
675 books
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2,157 friends
488 books
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46 friends
7,283 books
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4,398 friends
416 books
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184 friends
443 books
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133 friends
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questions answered:
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296 (64.8%)
skipped:
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