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“But don't you see that I must go, for it seems that I am cut in half and only one part of me here. The other piece is over the sea, calling and calling me to come and be whole.”
― Cup of Gold
― Cup of Gold
“In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long”
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star.”
― Cup of Gold
― Cup of Gold
“One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are, and to live without belief-that is a fate more terrible than dying.”
― The Book of Joan
― The Book of Joan
Mansfield Park Readalong
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— last activity May 17, 2018 11:30AM
Let's read Mansfield Park together in February. You can start the book when you like but I will read it from the 17th of February till the 28th of Fe ...more
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
Brontë Book Club
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— last activity Apr 07, 2023 12:57PM
A Goodreads group to run alongside the Brontë Book Club, an online reading group set up as part of Emily Brontë's bicentenary celebrations. ...more
LITTLE BOOK CLUB
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— last activity Dec 09, 2021 05:14AM
AMERICAN GODS Liveshow: Date TBA Due to popular demand, I have decided to start up a book club! I'll be organising some read-a-longs each month or so ...more
Bibliobook Club
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— last activity Dec 09, 2021 08:59AM
The girls of the Biannual Bibliothon decided two live shows wasn't enough! So we made a book club! We're going to be doing live shows for a particula ...more
Iris’s 2025 Year in Books
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